Paysage sacré, paysage spirituel et désert réformé: Sébastien Bourdon (1616–1671) et les pasteurs de Charenton

• Autores: Frédéric Cousinié
• Localización: Christian Discourses of the Holy and the Sacred from the 15th to the 17th Century / coord. por Teresa Hiergeist, Ismael del Olmo, 2020, ISBN 978-3-631-80081-2, págs. 197-220
• Idioma: francés
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• Resumen

  • Sébastien Bourdon (1616–1672) was a Calvinist painter who extensively worked for the Catholic Church in 17th century France. He is the creator of a collection of remarkable, however hardly studied, landscape engravings. Together with Pierre Patel, La Hyre, Mauperché, Le Lorrain, the Pérelles and Francisque Millet, Bourdon can be considered one of the great landscape artists of that century. Still, he is generally described as “classical” landscape artist inspired by Poussin or as a more animated landscape artist whose work’s traits resemble the “picturesque” works of Salvator Rosa, for instance. So far, the spiritual connotations related to his works have not caught the attention of many researchers. Based on a broader reading of abundant French Protestant literature of the 17th century (sermons, meditations, controversial treatises etc.), the article proposes to sketch a religious reading of his engravings primarily produced during the repressive era of the French monarchy with regard to its minorities. The focus is laid on how nature, with a particular scrutiny on the concept of the “desert”, is conceived as a place of exile and peregrination.