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- The imagery of death in the visual discourse of french illumination of the 13th-15th centuries: iconographic typologies and artistic practicePublication . Hrynda, Bohdana I.; Tkachuk, Ilona L.; Lysun, Yaryna Ya.; Shymin, Yaroslav V.; Odrekhivsky, Vasyl V.This study conducts a targeted iconographic analysis of imagery related to death in French illuminated manuscripts from the 13th to 15th centuries. Using art historical methods including stylistic, semiotic and hermeneutic analysis, the study aims to identify common iconographic typologies and examine how medieval artists visually represented ideas about mortality. Analysis of recurrent com-positional formats across various manuscript types demonstrates how illumination helps reconstruct medieval perspectives on the ubiq-uitous yet enigmatic phenomenon of death. Findings show that while certain convention-al templates recurred, illuminators adapted these to heighten emotional impact and nar-rative resonance. The prevalence of maca-bre motifs across both secular and religious manuscripts points to a preoccupation with death, even as the diversity of approaches reveals multifaceted attitudes. As artifacts of medieval visual culture, these works provide fertile ground for interdisciplinary investiga-tion into a society Spellbound by death.