Treasury of the Holy Sepulchre.
| N° d'inventaire | 17202 |
| Format | 25.5 x 28.5 |
| Détails | 429 p., color illustrations, publisher's hardcover. |
| Publication | Milan, 2013 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | |
Gathered over centuries that have not spared it their vicissitudes, the collection of goldsmithing, paramentics and paintings of the Custody of the Holy Land presented in This work has the value of a treasure; by its nature but especially by its destination: the sanctuaries and the cults celebrated in these sanctuaries. The Latin (Catholic) treasure of the Holy Places of Palestine, mainly Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Nazareth. Pledges or testimonies of faith and piety, according to consecrated formulas; fine points of art aroused by the munificence of the sovereigns, of the republics and of the Catholic donors, some of the pieces unearthed are the unique remains of collections that one could have thought entirely disappeared. Sumptuous products of sumptuousness, lamps, chalices, clothes... tend towards the promise concealed in the emptiness of the only tomb that will have nothing to give up at the end of the centuries -- (Chateaubriand): objects of expense, of expense and luxury, of luxury for God. The Friars Minor, to whom Catholicism has entrusted since the 14th century the custody, in the middle of the Muslim world, of the Holy Sepulchre, could also see there, without having been enriched by it, a shining homage paid to the heavy tribute they paid as well as to the privations they endured in the exercise of their apostolate. These gifts, finally, had important prestige stakes and took place in an intense European competition between Catholic nations, itself linked, especially from the 17th century onwards, to a rivalry over the possession of the Holy Places between Catholics and other Christian churches, and above all the Orthodox Church: driven by purely earthly interests as much as by their faith (César Famin), the powers of Europe became involved in these disputes. Nearly forty contributors, often of international renown, were brought together to write this work.
Gathered over centuries that have not spared it their vicissitudes, the collection of goldsmithing, paramentics and paintings of the Custody of the Holy Land presented in This work has the value of a treasure; by its nature but especially by its destination: the sanctuaries and the cults celebrated in these sanctuaries. The Latin (Catholic) treasure of the Holy Places of Palestine, mainly Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Nazareth. Pledges or testimonies of faith and piety, according to consecrated formulas; fine points of art aroused by the munificence of the sovereigns, of the republics and of the Catholic donors, some of the pieces unearthed are the unique remains of collections that one could have thought entirely disappeared. Sumptuous products of sumptuousness, lamps, chalices, clothes... tend towards the promise concealed in the emptiness of the only tomb that will have nothing to give up at the end of the centuries -- (Chateaubriand): objects of expense, of expense and luxury, of luxury for God. The Friars Minor, to whom Catholicism has entrusted since the 14th century the custody, in the middle of the Muslim world, of the Holy Sepulchre, could also see there, without having been enriched by it, a shining homage paid to the heavy tribute they paid as well as to the privations they endured in the exercise of their apostolate. These gifts, finally, had important prestige stakes and took place in an intense European competition between Catholic nations, itself linked, especially from the 17th century onwards, to a rivalry over the possession of the Holy Places between Catholics and other Christian churches, and above all the Orthodox Church: driven by purely earthly interests as much as by their faith (César Famin), the powers of Europe became involved in these disputes. Nearly forty contributors, often of international renown, were brought together to write this work.