RELIGST 3B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Scrovegni Chapel, Early Christianity, Middle Ages

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELIGST 3B03
• Professor: P Widdicombe

Document Summary

Early church did not tend to create images of the crucifixion itself: 3-4 centuries after the gospels the first public depiction was created. In the middle ages the crux if topically: the death of christ creates the atonement. Course pack pp ### has the visual of --- Point of head being pointed down is to show pain: those who were crucified were murderers, slaves, sudsiest (s. Thin: can see ribs, elongated arms, suffocation due to the hanging. Crucifixion, masaccio, 1428, santa maria novella, fresco, florence. All three are involved in his death: an attempt to display and connect what happened to christ and what god and the holy. Sprit are doing: be clear that the divine cannot suffer (god) Logos in christ is subject of not to suffering. This painting runs risk of stating god is subject to suffering : luther would have been familiar with this type of painting. John the baptist: pointing the jesus and a lamb.