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Semantic interpretation (iconology) of the painting of mourning on the body of Christ by Giotto with emphasis on the content of the incarnation
 
One of the interpretive approaches in image studies is iconology, which describes the meaning and explanation of works. In religious arts such as Christianity, there are many symbols and signs to refer to beliefs and traditions. One of the most important beliefs of Christianity is the incarnation of God. The purpose of this study was to study the semantics of a selected painting by Giotto, an Italian painter; In order to understand the symbolic concepts related to incarnation, The question arises as to how the iconological method seeks out the signs of embodiment in a Giotto painting, and what are the effects of the artist's knowledge on painting. The method of analytical-historical research has been selected and the desired approach is iconology. The article is written with reference to library and visual sources. In the end, it is suggested that the iconology method, while studying the face, deals with visual communication and why the work is formed based on the symbols of incarnation. Finally, for the first time in the history of art, despite the dominance of religion; He has used painting as an independent art based on facts and has expressed incarnation with realistic concepts.

New art is advancing very rapidly in a new era of history. This art includes various branches such as interactive art. What is interactive art and how art history is involved in shaping this new event; the main necessity of this research is. History is a set of events that take place in the context of time and reflects environmental, social and specific human realities, and interactive art is art based on the audience's participation and interaction with the work. The research method of the present article is descriptive-analytical and using library resources and works taken from Internet sources have been studied. The theoretical framework of this research is from the perspective of Arthur Coleman Danto, an American art critic and philosopher who uses the phrase "death of art in the face of postmodern art". The aim is to analyze Danto's theories on modern art, in which several works of interactive art have been selected to achieve the goal. Regarding the philosophy of history, he considers art as a sociological category and concludes that new art needs an interpretation of the experience of history in order to understand it.