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The Cross : History, Art, and Controversy
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ISBN: 067497929X 0674979281 Year: 2017 Publisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press,

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The cross stirs intense feelings among Christians as well as non-Christians. Robin Jensen takes readers on an intellectual and spiritual journey through the two-thousand-year evolution of the cross as an idea and an artifact, illuminating the controversies--along with the forms of devotion--this central symbol of Christianity inspires. Jesus's death on the cross posed a dilemma for Saint Paul and the early Church fathers. Crucifixion was a humiliating form of execution reserved for slaves and criminals. How could their messiah and savior have been subjected to such an ignominious death? Wrestling with this paradox, they reimagined the cross as a triumphant expression of Christ's sacrificial love and miraculous resurrection. Over time, the symbol's transformation raised myriad doctrinal questions, particularly about the crucifix--the cross with the figure of Christ--and whether it should emphasize Jesus's suffering or his glorification. How should Jesus's body be depicted: alive or dead, naked or dressed? Should it be shown at all? Jensen's wide-ranging study focuses on the cross in painting and literature, the quest for the "true cross" in Jerusalem, and the symbol's role in conflicts from the Crusades to wars of colonial conquest. The Cross also reveals how Jews and Muslims viewed the most sacred of all Christian emblems and explains its role in public life in the West today.--


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The cross, the Gospels, and the work of art in the Carolingian Age
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ISBN: 9781108451109 9781108428811 1108428819 110855363X 1108577016 1108638090 Year: 2019 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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In this book, Beatrice E. Kitzinger explores the power of representation in the Carolingian period, demonstrating how images were used to assert the value and efficacy of art works. She focuses on the cross, Christianity's central sign, which simultaneously commemorates sacred history, functions in the present, and prepares for the end of time. It is well recognized that the visual attributes of the cross were designed to communicate its theology relative to history and eschatology; Kitzinger argues that early medieval artists also developed a formal language to articulate its efficacious powers in the present day. Defined through form and text as the sign of the present, the image of the cross articulated the instrumentality of religious objects and built spaces. Whereas medieval and modern scholars have pondered the theological problems posed by representation, Kitzinger here proposes a visual argument that affirms the self-reflexive value of art works in the early medieval West. Introducing little-known sources, she re-evaluates both the image of the cross and the project of book-making in an expanded field of Carolingian painting.


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Jésus-Christ en écriture d'images : premières représentations chrétiennes
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ISBN: 2830906047 9782830906042 Year: 1990 Publisher: Genève Labor et Fides


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Piero della Francesca : il ciclo affrescato della Santa Croce nella chiesa di S. Francesco in Arezzo
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Year: 1980 Publisher: Milano : Silvana,


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Las cruces de Oviedo : el culto de la vera cruz en el reino asturiano
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ISBN: 8450513243 Year: 1985 Publisher: Oviedo : Instituto de Estudios Asturianos,

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The cross : history, art, and controversy
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ISBN: 9780674088801 0674088808 0674979281 067497929X Year: 2017 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press

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The cross stirs intense feelings among Christians as well as non-Christians. Robin Jensen takes readers on an intellectual and spiritual journey through the two-thousand-year evolution of the cross as an idea and an artifact, illuminating the controversies--along with the forms of devotion--this central symbol of Christianity inspires. Jesus's death on the cross posed a dilemma for Saint Paul and the early Church fathers. Crucifixion was a humiliating form of execution reserved for slaves and criminals. How could their messiah and savior have been subjected to such an ignominious death? Wrestling with this paradox, they reimagined the cross as a triumphant expression of Christ's sacrificial love and miraculous resurrection. Over time, the symbol's transformation raised myriad doctrinal questions, particularly about the crucifix--the cross with the figure of Christ--and whether it should emphasize Jesus's suffering or his glorification. How should Jesus's body be depicted: alive or dead, naked or dressed? Should it be shown at all? Jensen's wide-ranging study focuses on the cross in painting and literature, the quest for the "true cross" in Jerusalem, and the symbol's role in conflicts from the Crusades to wars of colonial conquest. The Cross also reveals how Jews and Muslims viewed the most sacred of all Christian emblems and explains its role in public life in the West today.--


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Cross and culture in Anglo-Norman England : theology, imagery, devotion
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ISBN: 9781783271269 1783271264 Year: 2016 Publisher: Woodbridge : The Boydell Press,

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The twelfth century has long been recognised as a period of unusual vibrancy and importance, witnessing seminal changes in the inter-related spheres of theology, devotional practice, and iconography, especially with regard to the cross and the crucifixion of Christ. However, the visual arts of the period have been somewhat neglected, scholarly activity tending to concentrate on its textual and intellectual heritage. This book explores this extraordinarily rich and vibrant visual and religious culture, offering new and exciting insights into its significance, and studying the dynamic relationships between ideas and images in England between 1066 and the first decades of the thirteenth century. In addition to providing the first extensive survey of surviving Passion imagery from the period, it explores those images' contexts: intellectual, cultural, religious, and art-historical. It thus not only enhances our understanding of the place of the cross in Anglo-Norman culture; it also demonstrates how new image theories and patterns of agency shaped the life of the later medieval church.


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Death, sanctity, and the Cross : crucified Saints in image and text
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ISBN: 9791254690956 9791254690024 Year: 2022 Publisher: Roma : Viella,

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A focus on crucified saints (like Christ in their death, unlike in its significance) has enabled this volume?s contributors to explore varied aspects of martyrdom, the ascription of sanctity, purification from sins, and the significance of multiple forms of crucifixion ? both literal and metaphorical ? from early Christianity to the present day, including examinations of the role of crucifixion in Islamic and secular settings, in its representation in sacred and non-Christian fiction, and in art.0Together these papers explore how the centrality of the cruci?x that we sometimes take for granted took longer in affirming itself and how cruci?ed saints played a signi?cant role in mediating and establishing the rationale for this presence and guiding the understanding of the process of redemption.


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Das Kreuz : Darstellung und Verehrung in der Frühen Neuzeit
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ISBN: 9783795426439 Year: 2013 Volume: 16 Publisher: Regensburg Schnell & Steiner


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Der Triumph des Kreuzes : Kunst und Konfession im letzten Viertel des 16. Jahrhunderts
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ISBN: 9783422067301 3422067302 Year: 2009 Volume: 143 Publisher: Berlin Deutscher Kunstverlag

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During the late 16th century the cross became a popular theme in art, particularly in Italy and southern Germany. This study focuses on the cross as a triumphal symbol of the spiritual and worldly claim to power.

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