Gestures in Passion Cycles in Central European Mural Painting

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  • Zdzisław Kliś

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15633/fhc.1463

Keywords:

gestures, Passion Cycles, central Europe, mural painting

Abstract

In medieval Passion cycles represented in Czech, Slovak (former Hungary), and Polish murals dating from the fourteenth to the fifteenth centuries one may observe a number of-gestures which appear in respective scenes starting from the Entry into Jerusalem and ending with the Entombment (laying in the sepulchre). The most significant gesture in the entry scene is the outstretched hand of Christ riding a donkey. It is the language of gesture used since antiquity, transmitted through Byzantine and Italian art (including Giotto’s Entry into Jerusalem in his Arena Chapel frescoes), and transferred into art north of the Alps.

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2024-05-07

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