BARED Robert.
The Saints: Spiritual Adventure and Performance.
Hazan
Regular price
€39,95
| N° d'inventaire | 30049 |
| Format | 21 x 27 |
| Détails | 191 p., illustrated, publisher's hardcover. |
| Publication | Paris, 2023 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782754112857 |
Living in the hearts of the faithful, the saints are revealed to all—believers, atheists, agnostics—through their painted or sculpted images, their countless presence in our museums and churches. Between religious veneration and artistic celebration, in their eternity or their posterity, the saints are not gone.
To better understand their representations and grasp their meaning, we must know the significant episodes of their lives, their innermost aspirations, their quest for the absolute. To better identify them and trace the origin of the distinctive signs that are their "attributes" (the keys for Saint Peter, the musical instruments for Cecilia, the tower for Barbara, the grill for Lawrence, the wheel for Catherine of Alexandria, etc.), we must inquire about their main miracles and explore their journey, both earthly and heavenly. The imagination of painters and sculptors embraces popular piety: it is linked to the gilding of legends, the flamboyance of martyrs.
A selection of 77 saints depicted in Western art. Discover their human, spiritual, and iconographic adventures.
To better understand their representations and grasp their meaning, we must know the significant episodes of their lives, their innermost aspirations, their quest for the absolute. To better identify them and trace the origin of the distinctive signs that are their "attributes" (the keys for Saint Peter, the musical instruments for Cecilia, the tower for Barbara, the grill for Lawrence, the wheel for Catherine of Alexandria, etc.), we must inquire about their main miracles and explore their journey, both earthly and heavenly. The imagination of painters and sculptors embraces popular piety: it is linked to the gilding of legends, the flamboyance of martyrs.
A selection of 77 saints depicted in Western art. Discover their human, spiritual, and iconographic adventures.
To better understand their representations and grasp their meaning, we must know the significant episodes of their lives, their innermost aspirations, their quest for the absolute. To better identify them and trace the origin of the distinctive signs that are their "attributes" (the keys for Saint Peter, the musical instruments for Cecilia, the tower for Barbara, the grill for Lawrence, the wheel for Catherine of Alexandria, etc.), we must inquire about their main miracles and explore their journey, both earthly and heavenly. The imagination of painters and sculptors embraces popular piety: it is linked to the gilding of legends, the flamboyance of martyrs.
A selection of 77 saints depicted in Western art. Discover their human, spiritual, and iconographic adventures.