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Autore |
Sadler Donna L |
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Titolo |
Touching the Passion--seeing late medieval altarpieces through the eyes of faith / / by Donna L. Sadler |
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Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2018 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xvi, 255 pages) : illustrations |
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Collana |
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Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history ; ; v. 26 |
Brill's studies in intellectual history, , 0920-8607 ; ; v. 279 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Public worship - History |
Altarpieces, Medieval |
Church history - Middle Ages, 600-1500 |
Faith |
Church history - Middle Ages |
Passion of Jesus Christ |
Public worship |
Art. |
History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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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. |
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