Stone, Flesh, Spirit: The Entombment of Christ in Late Medieval Burgundy and Champagne

Grief binds the worshipers together in an adagio of sorrow as they encounter the sculptural representation of the Entombment of Christ. Located in funerary chapels, parish churches, cemeteries, and hospitals, these works embody the piety of the later Middle Ages. In this book, Donna Sadler examines the sculptural Entombments from Burgundy and Champagne through a variety of lenses, including performance theory, embodied perception, and the invocation of the absent presence of the Holy Sepulcher. The author demonstrates how the action of Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus entombing Christ in the presence of the Marys and John operates in a commemorative and collective fashion: the worshiper enters the realm of the holy and becomes a participant in the biblical event.

About the author

Donna L. Sadler, Ph.D. Indiana University 1984, is a professor of art history at Agnes Scott College. She has published Reading the Reverse Façade of Reims Cathedral: Royalty and Ritual in 13th-century France (2012) and articles on the art of Saint Louis, the court of Claus Sluter, and the dogs on royal tomb effigies.

Product details

• Authors: Donna L Sadler, Donna L. Sadler
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.05.2015
• EAN: 9789004264113
• ISBN: 978-90-04-26411-3
• No. of pages: 252
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 239 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 499 g
• Series: Art and Material Culture in Me
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works