the halo in a middle ages painting to indicate a subject is holy is iconography.
the halo in a middle ages painting to indicate a subject is holy is iconography.
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iconography
"aureole", from the latin for "golden", has been used in english as a term for a gold crown, especially that traditionally considered the reward of martyrs, since the middle ages (oed 1220). but the first use recorded as a term for a halo is in 1848, very shortly after which matters were greatly complicated by the publication in 1851 of the english translation of adolphe napoléon didron's important "christian iconography: or, the history of christian art in the middle ages". this, by what the oed calls a "strange blunder", derived the word from the latin "aura" as a diminutive, and also defined it as meaning a halo or glory covering the whole body, whilst saying that "nimbus" referred only to a halo around the head. this, according to the oed, reversed the historical usage of both words, but whilst didron's diktat was "not accepted in france", the oed noted it had already been picked up by several english dictionaries, and influenced usage in english, which still seems to be the case, as the word "nimbus" is mostly found describing whole-body haloes, and seems to have also influenced "gloriole" in the same direction.
halo (religious iconography)
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