Touching the Passion -- Seeing Late Medieval Altarpieces Through the Eyes of Faith

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-36019-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 279/26, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 635 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History / Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sadler, Donna L

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Christliche Kunst und Kultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Völkerwanderung und Mittelalter
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunststile Christliche Kunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunst: Rezeption, Einflüsse und Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Malerei: Gemälde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Index

Über Autor(innen)

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).