The purpose of this representation was to convey a sense of awe and reverence to all who viewed it, emphasizing the power of the Christian God and His ability to judge humanity in the afterlife. It was also intended to serve as a reminder and warning to those who entered the church of the importance of living a moral and virtuous life.
What is representation?
The use of symbols to stand in for and replace something else is known as representation. Representation has been linked to semiotics and aesthetics (art) (signs). The concept of representation, according to Mitchell, "extends all the way from a stone representing a man to the a novel representing a day in the life of several Dubliners." People organise the world as well as reality through representation by giving its components names. Signs are arranged to express relations and create semantic constructions. The creation and manipulation of signs—things that "stand for" or "take the place of" something else—are considered to be the distinctive characteristics of man, according to many philosophers—both ancient and modern. Man is thus referred to as the "representational animal" or animal symbolicum.
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