EN
“Most important, Bergman shows us, as medieval artists did, an allegorical, iconic reality, in Erich Auerbach's term, a figural reality which can be understood only by seeing that it prefigures something beyond itself. ‘My intention,’ Bergman writes in a note to the film, ‘has been to paint in the same way as the medieval church painter,’ and lo and behold! he has done just exactly that.”
Norman N. Holland
