Gesture as the Expresion of the Pascal Mystery in the Central European Medieval Art Cover Image

Gestykulacja jako sposób wyrażenia treści Misterium Paschalnego w sztuce średniowiecznej Europy Środkowej
Gesture as the Expresion of the Pascal Mystery in the Central European Medieval Art

Author(s): Dariusz Tabor
Subject(s): History, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Visual Arts, Theology and Religion, History of Religion
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Papieskiego Jana Pawła II w Krakowie
Keywords: Pascha; Misterium Paschalne; Zmartwychwstanie; pasja Chrystusa; malarstwo gotyckie; sztuka romańska; Europa środkowa; malarstwo książkowe

Summary/Abstract: The Paschal Mystery is the central reality of the Christianity. This is a series of historical events, presented in the canonical Gospels, in which Jesus from Nazaret was submit to the suffering, death, but was revived and bas ascend 10 the glory. These events was full of meanings and significations. This significations of paschal event has been meditated and analyzed in the Christian text, - in Gospels, in Paul’s Letters, but in the sermon of Fathers of the Church. Meliton of Sardes, Orygenes, Pseudo-Hypolite, and others are known as the interpreters of paschal events. The liturgical texts - Exultet and Victimae Paschali explain the profound sense of the Death and the resurrection of Christ All these works inspired the iconography. This presentation has to review the some works of art in Central Europeand interpretations their theological sense. The gestures will be the key to discovery of meaning. /

  • Issue Year: 13/2007
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 119-134
  • Page Count: 26
  • Language: English