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

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

Sadler, Donna L.

Hardcover

Art HistoryEuropean ArtGeneral World History

ISBN10: 9004360190
ISBN13: 9789004360198
Publisher: Brill
Published: Mar 22 2018
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.40
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.50
Language: English
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.

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