Touching the Passion — Seeing Late Medieval Altarpieces through the Eyes of Faith

Donna L. Sadler (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

272 Seiten

2018
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-36019-8 (ISBN)

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Touching the Passion considers the ways that the Passion in late medieval retables touched worshipers. The author explores the “aesthetics of immersion” through different lenses, such as scale, medium, the five senses, the effect of the frame, and medieval mnemonics.

In Touching the Passion — Seeing Late Medieval Altarpieces through the Eyes of Faith, Donna Sadler explores the manner in which worshipers responded to the carved and polychromed retables adorning the altars of their parish churches. Framed by the symbolic death of Christ re-enacted during the Mass, the historical account of the Passion on the retable situated Christ’s suffering and triumph over death in the present. The dramatic gestures, contemporary garb, and wealth of anecdotal detail on the altarpiece, invited the viewer’s absorption in the narrative. As in the Imitatio Christi, the worshiper imaginatively projected himself into the story like a child before a dollhouse. The five senses, the sculptural medium, the small scale, and the rhetoric of memory foster this immersion.

Donna L. Sadler (PhD, Indiana University, 1984) taught principally at Agnes Scott College. Among her many publications are Reading the Reverse Façade of Reims Cathedral: Royalty and Ritual in 13th-Century France (Ashgate; 2012) and Stone, Flesh, Spirit: The Entombment of Christ in Late Medieval Burgundy and Champagne (Brill; 2015).

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

1 Coming to Terms with the Late Medieval Altarpiece

2 A Tale of Two Retables from the Benedictine Monastery of Crisenon in the Musée-Abbaye Saint-Germain, Auxerre

3 The Aesthetics of Immersion: The Reception of the Retable by the Worshipers

4 Engagement with the Pathos of the Passion

5 The Role of the Frame

Epilogue: The Late Medieval Altarpiece as House of Memory

Bibliography

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Erscheinungsdatum	25.03.2018
Reihe/Serie	Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History ; 279/26
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	651 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Liturgik / Homiletik
	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	90-04-36019-0 / 9004360190
ISBN-13	978-90-04-36019-8 / 9789004360198
Zustand	Neuware