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

Authors

  • Dariusz Tabor The Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15633/fhc.1466

Keywords:

Pascha, Paschal Mystery, resurrection, passion of the Christ, romanesque painting, romanesque art, central Europe, book’s painting

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.

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Published

2024-05-07

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