In: Rivista di archeologia, storia, costume. Istituto storico lucchese, 1998, vol. 26, no. 2-4, p. 87-102
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In: Iconographica: rivista di iconografia medievale e moderna, 2014, vol. 13, p. 45-66
In the small village of Beget, in the Catalonian Pyrenees, a monumental statue representing Christ in the Majestat- type and dating from the second half of the 12th century is involved in an unusual ceremony that takes place on November 9th, i.e. on the day associated in the High Middle Ages with the yearly celebration (known as Festum Salvatoris or Passio imaginis Domini) in honour of the...
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In: La Santa Croce di Lucca, il Volto Santo. Storia, tradizioni, immagini , proceedings of a congress held in Lucca, 2003, p. 115-130
This paper focuses on the ways in which the most important cult-image in Medieval Lucca, the so-called "Volto Santo" (holy face) came to be regarded by contemporary viewers as a true-to-life image of Christ, sculpted by the Pharisee Nicodemus. The paper emphasizes also the connection with the liturgical tradition of the Passio ymaginis feast on November 9 and its literary and ritual framework.
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