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Record Nr.

UNINA9910796785503321

Autore

Sadler Donna L

Titolo

Touching the Passion--seeing late medieval altarpieces through the eyes of faith / / by Donna L. Sadler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2018

ISBN

90-04-36437-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi, 255 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history ; ; v. 26

Brill's studies in intellectual history, , 0920-8607 ; ; v. 279

Disciplina

247/.1

Soggetti

Public worship - History

Altarpieces, Medieval

Church history - Middle Ages, 600-1500

Faith

Church history - Middle Ages

Passion of Jesus Christ

Public worship

Art.

History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Copyright page -- -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Coming to Terms with the Late Medieval Altarpiece -- A Tale of Two Retables from the Benedictine Monastery of Crisenon in the Musée-Abbaye Saint-Germain, Auxerre -- The Aesthetics of Immersion: The Reception of the Retable by the Worshipers -- Engagement with the Pathos of the Passion -- The Role of the Frame -- Epilogue: The Late Medieval Altarpiece as House of Memory.

Sommario/riassunto

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.