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

Touching the Passion -- Seeing Late Medieval Altarpieces Through the Eyes of Faith (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004360198)

Vendor: Donna L. Sadler
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Format: Hardcover
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Touching the Passion -- Seeing Late Medieval Altarpieces Through the Eyes of Faith by Sadler

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

$153.00
Touching the Passion -- Seeing Late Medieval Altarpieces Through the Eyes of Faith by Sadler

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

$153.00
Format: Hardcover
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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 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.

Author: Donna L. Sadler
ISBN-10: 9004360190
ISBN-13: 9789004360198
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 03/22/2018
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.30w x 0.70d
By Donna L. Sadler
By Donna L. Sadler
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Donna L. Sadler (PhD, Indiana University, 1984) taught principally at Agnes Scott College. Among her many publications are Reading the Reverse Fa軋de 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).

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