Abstract The medieval legend of Theophilus generated a near-unending corpus of images and texts. The legend obviously captured a vital medieval preoccupation: about identity, the mediating power of the Virgin, and the role of the individual in salvation. No visualization of the legend captures the textual narrative as faithfully as the one in manuscript 551 of the Bibliothèque municipale of Besançon. And yet, this visual fidelity to the textual narrative may easily blind us to the sophisticated and creative way the Besançon artist engages with the legend. By approaching these images with Jérôme Baschet’s “approche sérielle,” this article moves beyond the representational modality of this sequence of images to explore the relational visual narrative they propose. In the case of Besançon 551, the “approche sérielle” permits us to “see” the way the artist deploys subtle marks, signs, objects, and images to dramatize Theophilus’ pathway to salvation.

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贝桑松551号的《西奥菲勒斯》照明序列中的“ Une approchesérielle”

摘要西奥菲勒斯（Theophilus）的中世纪传说产生了几乎无限的图像和文本语料库。传说显然抓住了中世纪的一个至关重要的问题：关于身份，处女的调解能力以及个人在救赎中的作用。没有像贝桑松的市政图书馆的文献551中的那样，传说的形象化能够像忠实地那样捕捉文本的叙述。然而，对文本叙述的视觉保真度可能使我们容易被贝桑松艺术家与传奇故事相融合的复杂和创造性的方法所蒙蔽。通过使用JérômeBaschet的“ approchesérielle”处理这些图像，本文超越了这些图像序列的表示形式，探索了它们提出的关系视觉叙事。对于贝桑松551，