Résumé
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This present volume concludes Jean Wirth's great synthesis on medieval imagery, begun in 1999 with L'Image à l'époque romane", followed in 2008 by"L'Image à l'époque gothique". It traces the evolution of imagery from the end of the 13th century to the iconoclasm of the Reformation. The starting point is marked by the Giottesque revolution in pictorial construction. The growing interest in representing things in a realistic manner began, in effect, with Giotto and his contemporaries with the invention of infinite perspective which spread throughout Western Europe revolutionising narrative structures, while portraiture in the modern sense was established that is to say the depiction of an individual's physical characteristics. Although the advances in pictorial expression resulted in a certain"realism", in the everyday meaning of the word, artists also aimed to render the supernatural palpable. They were employed in the service of a colourful form of devotion, mixing apparitions and everyday scenes, the display of wealth with feats of asceticism and puritanism with the eroticization of saints. The system of iconography pushed the pre-existing polarities to the extreme. The Virgin Mary, the Queen of Heaven and symbol of the Church, became a quasi-goddess, eternally young, and Christ, bloodied and sexless, a strange object of desire and compassion. The images became more diverse, creating an increasingly expanding place for the patron saints of groups and individuals, while the iconography of the secular powers began to distance itself from religious symbolism. But the increasing illusionism in images became vaguely suspicious, the extravagance and venality of their religion was yet an increasing cause for concern. In reaction to the critics, the Flemish and Florentine painters of the 15th century promoted a severe and dignified art, in harmony with a disciplined devoutness. In Germany, where these efforts did not come to fruition, the artworks which filled the churches were regarded as idols used to justify a detested clergy, so that their destruction accompanied the latter's abolition by the Reformation. This was not the end of the reign of the image, quite the contrary but, from that moment on, images ceased to be an artistic phenomenon and their study became less and less the concern of the historian of art."
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PAPIER | |
Éditeur(s) | Cerf |
Auteur(s) | Wirth Jean |
Parution | 16/06/2011 |
Couverture | Broché |
EAN13 | 9782204090926 |
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