"Sehet, welch ein Mensch!" Geschichte oder geistliche Auslegung des Lebens Jesu in der deutschen Malerei und Graphik um 1500

• Autores: Katharina Krause
• Localización: Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, ISSN 0044-2992, Vol. 64, Nº. 4, 2001, págs. 475-500
• Idioma: alemán
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• Resumen

  • The writer discusses depictions or spiritual interpretations of the life of Christ in German painting and graphic art in around 1500. In the course of the 15th century there was a growing awareness of the differences between texts and images when it came to depicting scenes reflecting God's saving grace. As a result of this awareness, paintings, because of the nature of their medium, were not considered capable of depicting such scenes as history. That is, they could not offer a form that vouched for the truth content of the depiction. The writer, using depictions of the “Ostinatio Christi” as examples, focuses above all on two issues: the way in which the pictorial presentation of an event described in Biblical texts became a phenomenon specific to painting (a phenomenon censored before and during the Reformation) and the attempt by painters to reveal the before and after of the depicted moment, thus presenting a “complete” history.