Weekly Bulletin
Faith, Art and Easter
Presenter: Laura Mueller, Lecturer – Art Institute
Chicago
Dates: March 11th, 18th and 25th
Time: 11:15 am – 12:15 pm
This slide lecture series will examine how paintings, prints, drawings, and ivories from the great tradition of European art (Early Christian through Baroque, with a few modern examples) told the story of Christ's death and resurrection.
"The Circle and the Kiss: Unity and Betrayal"
Lecture 1 (on March 11)
The gathering together of Christ's followers at feasts culminating in the Last Supper and the splintering of that circle by betrayals form the backdrop for the aloneness of Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane. This lecture will look at the way artists depicted this series of events, contrasting the unity of the group with the isolation of individuals.
"Via Crucia"
Lecture 2 (on March 18)
Based on the Bible, on devotional texts like the Meditations on the Life of Christ, and on sacred dramas acted out in churches during Holy Week, artists formulated traditions for representing events in the Passion sequence, such as the mocking of Christ, the Ecce Homo, the Crucifixion itself, and the Pieta.
"Seeing is Believing"
Lecture 3 (on March 25)
Christ made His resurrection known in various ways, perhaps appealing more to hearing and touch than to sight. But visual artists had to rely on sight alone, developing a rich iconography for depictions of the Resurrection, the Noli Me Tangere scene, the Supper at Emmaus, and Christ on the Sea of Galilee.
Last Updated: Wednesday, February 6, 2008