Treasures of the Holy Sepulchre.
Deer| N° d'inventaire | 23258 |
| Format | 22.5 x 28 |
| Détails | 255 p., paperback with dust jacket. |
| Publication | Paris, 2020 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782204140096 |
Goldwork, trimmings, statuary: nothing was ever too expensive or beautiful enough for the kings and queens who, following the Emperor Constantine, wished to honor the tomb of Christ. It is this treasure, exhibited for the first time in Jerusalem, which is unveiled here. Like its subject, a pious and sumptuous album that tells the entire history of the world. Here is the most marvelous of history and geography textbooks that summarizes the great artistic chronicle of the West by revealing for the first time the best-kept religious secret of Jerusalem. The thousand and one treasures that came from all over Europe over the ages to honor the Holy City compose a universal chronicle of beauty. From Constantine in the 4th century to Napoleon III in the 19th century, by way of Saint Louis, Joan of Provence, Charles V, Christina of Sweden, Louis XIV, nothing was ever precious enough for the kings and queens eager to glorify the memory of Christ. Competing across the centuries, they requisitioned the rarest materials - gold, silver, marble, rubies -, mobilized the most astonishing creators - painters, upholsterers, goldsmiths, sculptors - to place at the foot of the Cross the most colossal objects - altars, enamels, chalices, missals - which, indifferent to the wear and tear of the centuries and gathered by the Franciscan friars, form an extraordinary ideal museum that this book finally opens to all. Bringing each of these works back to life, restoring the great events and the small anecdotes that they recount in the alliance between mysticism and politics, art and finance, devotion and calculation, Jacques Charles-Gaffiot resurrects the great era when luxury was a divine affair.
Goldwork, trimmings, statuary: nothing was ever too expensive or beautiful enough for the kings and queens who, following the Emperor Constantine, wished to honor the tomb of Christ. It is this treasure, exhibited for the first time in Jerusalem, which is unveiled here. Like its subject, a pious and sumptuous album that tells the entire history of the world. Here is the most marvelous of history and geography textbooks that summarizes the great artistic chronicle of the West by revealing for the first time the best-kept religious secret of Jerusalem. The thousand and one treasures that came from all over Europe over the ages to honor the Holy City compose a universal chronicle of beauty. From Constantine in the 4th century to Napoleon III in the 19th century, by way of Saint Louis, Joan of Provence, Charles V, Christina of Sweden, Louis XIV, nothing was ever precious enough for the kings and queens eager to glorify the memory of Christ. Competing across the centuries, they requisitioned the rarest materials - gold, silver, marble, rubies -, mobilized the most astonishing creators - painters, upholsterers, goldsmiths, sculptors - to place at the foot of the Cross the most colossal objects - altars, enamels, chalices, missals - which, indifferent to the wear and tear of the centuries and gathered by the Franciscan friars, form an extraordinary ideal museum that this book finally opens to all. Bringing each of these works back to life, restoring the great events and the small anecdotes that they recount in the alliance between mysticism and politics, art and finance, devotion and calculation, Jacques Charles-Gaffiot resurrects the great era when luxury was a divine affair.