Touching the Passion -- Seeing Late Medieval Altarpieces Through the Eyes of Faith

Touching the Passion considers the ways that the Passion in late medieval retables touched worshipers. The author explores the "aesthetics of immersion" through different lenses, such as scale, medium, the five senses, the effect of the frame, and medieval mnemonics.

About the author

Donna L. Sadler (PhD, Indiana University, 1984) taught principally at Agnes Scott College. Among her many publications are Reading the Reverse Façade of Reims Cathedral: Royalty and Ritual in 13th-Century France (Ashgate; 2012) and Stone, Flesh, Spirit: The Entombment of Christ in Late Medieval Burgundy and Champagne (Brill; 2015).

Product details

• Authors: Donna L Sadler, Donna L. Sadler
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.03.2018
• EAN: 9789004360198
• ISBN: 978-90-04-36019-8
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 241 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 635 g
• Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectua
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works