
Résumé
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Mary, to whom the Angel has announced that she will bear a son, hastens to tell her cousin Elisabeth, who is pregnant despite her advanced years. Illuminated manuscripts, retables, icons, murals, mosaics, stained-glass windows, sculpted objects: works that bear testimony of Christian art in the East and the West, ranging from the 5th to the 16th century and in a dazzling array of media, depicting the miraculously rounded abdomens of these two women. The salient element in all this iconography is the visible presence of the unborn children: Jesus and John the Baptist are represented either within or in front of their mothers' bodies. These images of visible children arouse our curiosity. Their concentration in the Germanic and adjoining regions leads to the milieu of the Beguines and Rhenish mysticism, where the themes of the birth of God in the soul and the union of the soul with God recall the assertion of the first century Fathers: 'God became man, that man might become God'. In this religious context, we perceive devotional practices in which dolls, cradles - the body of the Christ Child Himself - are not only visible but also palpable and tangible. To what possible desire in the hearts of men and women could this form of representation correspond - if not to witness the Incarnation? The Visitation and Annunciation - two preceding stages in the realisation of God's plan to send His Son into the world, are gloriously highlighted by the works assembled here.
Caractéristiques techniques
PAPIER | |
Éditeur(s) | Cerf |
Auteur(s) | VELU ANNE-MARIE |
Collection | Histoire |
Parution | 07/06/2012 |
Format | 16.9 x 23.8 |
Couverture | Broché |
Poids | 642g |
EAN13 | 9782204096584 |
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