Use of a Knowledge Patterns-Based Tool for Dealing With the “Narrative Meaning” of Complex Iconographic Cultural Heritage Items

International audienceThis paper suggests to use a powerful tool like NKRL, the “Narrative Knowledge Representation Language”, to deal with the representation and man- agement in digital form of those important Cultural Heritage entities correspond- ing to the “Iconographic Narratives”. These denote the “stories” conveyed by paintings, drawings, frescoes, mosaics, sculptures, murals and similar but also by pictures, posters, comics, cartoons, movies etc. An example of use of NKRL to deal with the complex narrative situation represented by the central scene of Di- ego Velazquez’s “The Surrender of Breda” is included in the paper