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Saint Judas, Apostle and Martyr - Passion Theology, Politics and the Artistic Persona in a French Romanesque Capital (Hardcover)
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Saint Judas, Apostle and Martyr - Passion Theology, Politics and the Artistic Persona in a French Romanesque Capital (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in the Humanities Literature - Politics - Society, 52
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Between 1125 and 1135, it is generally agreed, a sculptor of genius
usually referred to as Gislebertus carved a tympanum and a series
of capitals for the cathedral dedicated to Saint Lazarus at Autun.
The capital depicting the suicide of Judas is unique in the
Romanesque repertoire both for its beauty of technique and for its
execution of subject matter. The iconography is at once baffling
and rich in possibilities of interpretation, which extend far
beyond a simple image of a hanged man. One of the possibilities
explored is that this is an image of a man realizing in extremis
that he could and should have been remembered throughout history as
Saint Judas, Apostle and Martyr, rather than as the paradigmatic
traitor. There are objects in the image that demand - and receive -
explanations, albeit tentative: the protuberance on Judas' back;
the strap from which he is hanging; the position of his hands and
feet. The interpretation is set firmly in its historical period,
but the image is also discussed as an object whose significance
transcends the time and the place in which it was conceived and
produced.
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