Translation of: Madchen mit totem Vogel : eine interkulturelle Bildbetrachtung. Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-179).
Summary:
The portrait we have come to call 'Little Girl with Dead Bird' is an enigma. On the one hand, we hardly know anything about this sixteenth-century masterpiece. But even so, on the other hand, the picture fascinates viewers to this day. This painting's indeterminate yet compelling status provides Volkmar Muhleis grounds to look beyond its historical significance and to explore its anthropological scope as well, from an intercultural perspective and, moreover, against the backdrop of its complex of themes concerning life and death. To do so, Muhleis returns to the conceptual premises that frame the relationship between the history of art and the anthropology of images, along with those that juxtapose Western and Eastern philosophies.
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