Quemadmodum Desiderat Cervus, the Psalm 42 (41): artistic interpretations and imagery
Quemadmodum Desiderat Cervus, the Psalm 42 (41): artistic interpretations and imagery

Summary/Abstract: This article presents the analysis of the artistic interpretationsand the imaginary representations of Psalm 41 (42), present in the motif ofthe chained deer that was represented in the ecclesiastical textiles of theCathedral of Brandenburg, dating from the third quarter of the 14th century,with reproductions executed in the second half of the 19th century and thebeginning of the 20th century, with some copies in the Historical andArtistic Collection of the Venerable Third Order of Saint Francis ofPenance of the City of São Paulo (VOTSFPCSP) and the Collection of theSão Bento Monastery in São Paulo. In addition to textiles, we have theanalysis of the Wilton diptych (c.1395-9), belonging to the NationalGallery of London, as well as the relief on the altar of the Chapel of theBlessed Sacrament of the Abbey Basilica of Our Lady of the Assumption.Our analysis has as a theoretical basis 'The Commentaries on the Psalms'of Saint Augustine (1997), the work of Albert Rouet (1994) that deals withthe relation between art and liturgy, methodology for the study of the imageand its uses by Bock (1859 ), EH Gombrich (2012a, 2012b) and Panofsky(1990, 1995), with the support of the study in heraldry by William Berry(1828).

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