Iconography as a text: problems of translation into a verbal language in catechization
In the article the interpretation of iconographic images is considered as a problem of translation from the pictorial language, which uses images as signs, into a verbal language, for which the word is a sign. The peculiarity of verbal signs is their variability from language to language and from era to era, even within the same language. The necessity of commenting on images is substantiated. An attempt is made to generalize the experience of learning to understand the iconographic language and the main problems of this activity.