TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sadler,Donna L.
TI  - Touching the Passion--seeing late medieval altarpieces through the eyes of faith
T2  - Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history
SN  - 9789004364370
AV  - BV195 .S23 2018
U1  - 247/.1 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Jesus Christ
KW  - Jesus Christ.
KW  - Public worship
KW  - History
KW  - Altarpieces, Medieval
KW  - Church history
KW  - Middle Ages, 600-1500
KW  - Faith
KW  - fast
KW  - Middle Ages
KW  - Passion of Jesus Christ
KW  - Art
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004364370
ER  -