Iconological Analysis of the “Man on a Bicycle” Relief in North Bali Created During the Dutch Colonial Period | Analisis Ikonologi Karya Relief “Laki-laki di sebuah Sepeda” di Bali Utara Jaman colonial Belanda

Temple in North Bali. The relief was created around 1904, when North Bali was under Dutch colonial rule. It is the first relief created that deviates from Balinese society’s traditional art style. As with other works of art, there is a message and a particular purpose for the creation of this relief. This paper provides a more in-depth study of the relief by using the iconographic and iconological theory of Erwin Panofsky as a method for analysing relief works in relation to the social and cultural context of Balinese society during the colonial period. Panofsky’s three-stage iconographic anal... Mehr ...