Le suicide du roi Hérode le Grand et les peintures murales du prieuré rural de la Poraire
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Christian Davy [1]
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[1] Patrimoine des Pays de la Loire
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- Localización: Revue de l'art, ISSN 0035-1326, Nº. 195, 2017, págs. 41-51
- Idioma: francés
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Resumen
The Suicide of King Herod the Great and the Mural Paintings in the Rural Priory of the Poraire.
The historian Flavius Josephus narrated King Herod's atrocious end of life. Very early on, Christians considered it as the divine punishment for the massacre of the innocents that they attributes to this king. This point of view remained dominant throughout the Middle Ages despite the apparition of another interpretation, with its origins in the Carolingian Auxerois seat, which transformed the death resulting from illness into suicide. This minority current of thought, which reports the refusal of grace had some success in England before developing on the continent.
A representation of the suicide of Herod has recently been identified in the decoration of the church of the priory of La Poraire, belonging to the Order of Fontevraud. The study seeks to clarify the place of this new image of the suicide of Herod painted around 1200 in an original vision of hell.
