CONGRESS CANCELED Monumental Crucifixes: Histories, Materials, and Meanings
Description
This session will focus on large-scale depictions of Christ on the cross. As a central motif of medieval European visual culture, these objects enjoyed broad currency from their origins in the decades around 1000 until the Protestant Reformation and in many parts of the world, related statues have continued to be produced for liturgical use until the present day. In the Middle Ages such sculptures inspired miraculous visions and iconoclastic rebellions; in modern museums they raise difficult questions about display and interpretation because, unlike comparatively soothing statues of the enthroned Madonna, crucifixes force conversations about histories of pain, death, and resurrection that may be alien and uncomfortable for secular audiences.
Signed: Shirin Fozi
CONGRESS CANCELED Monumental Crucifixes: Histories, Materials, and Meanings
Sangren 1740
This session will focus on large-scale depictions of Christ on the cross. As a central motif of medieval European visual culture, these objects enjoyed broad currency from their origins in the decades around 1000 until the Protestant Reformation and in many parts of the world, related statues have continued to be produced for liturgical use until the present day. In the Middle Ages such sculptures inspired miraculous visions and iconoclastic rebellions; in modern museums they raise difficult questions about display and interpretation because, unlike comparatively soothing statues of the enthroned Madonna, crucifixes force conversations about histories of pain, death, and resurrection that may be alien and uncomfortable for secular audiences.
Signed: Shirin Fozi