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