Kumler, Aden. (2018) Signatis... vultus tui: (Re)impressing the Holy Face before and after the European Cult of the Veronica. Convivium, Supplementum, 2. pp. 102-113.
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Abstract
From the outset, the Veronica was framed as an impressed image of the Holy Face, a treatment that contributed to the Roman relic’s auratic status as a cult object and encouraged, if not demanded, its replication and dissemination in the form of images and objects. This essay explores how the Veronica was itself authorized by and functioned in a long, far-reaching medieval tradition of (re)impressing Christ’s face in the low-relief forms of coins, seals, communion wafers, and méreaux (tokens). Materially instantiating the trope of the sacred impression, such objects reveal how people in the Middle Ages actively participated in the project of re-impressing the Holy Face, thus establishing a material and conceptual tradition conducive to the thirteenth-century explosion of the Veronica’s cult and its enduring vitality into the early modern period.
Faculties and Departments: | 04 Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > Departement Künste, Medien, Philosophie 04 Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > Departement Künste, Medien, Philosophie > Fachbereich Kunstgeschichte > Ältere Kunstgeschichte (Kumler) |
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UniBasel Contributors: | Kumler, Aden |
Item Type: | Article, refereed |
Article Subtype: | Research Article |
Publisher: | Brepols |
ISSN: | 2336-3452 |
Note: | Publication type according to Uni Basel Research Database: Journal article |
Last Modified: | 06 Oct 2021 13:32 |
Deposited On: | 06 Oct 2021 13:32 |
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