CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2019
| Author | Bárdits, Éva |
|---|---|
| Title | A Portrait of Christ in the Christian Museum of Esztergom |
| Summary | This thesis centers around a small-scale devotional painting depicting Christ with a crown of thorns in the Christian Museum of Esztergom, aiming to better define this particular work’s art historical position as it has not been extensively researched before. Iconographic analysis, stylistic analysis and the evaluation of technical data are all applied to reach this aim. The findings of a restoration that was carried out in 2018 (and that gave momentum to this project in the first place) are recorded and examined. The exact iconographic type of the image is defined as Christ Crowned with Thorns (or Salvator Coronatus). Questioning previous attributions and dating, the time and place of the painting’s creation is investigated through stylistic and iconographic analogies, concluding that the painting is either of German or Netherlandish origin and was most probably created between 1475 and 1525. Concerning the possible meaning and function, the painting is investigated within the context of fifteenth-century devotional attitudes, interpreting it as an Andachtsbild. A multilayered meaning is revealed in the interplay of various iconographic types that is understood within the framework of affective piety and thus connected to emotive and mnemonic aspects of private devotion. The embellishment of Christ’s portrait with the signs and tools of corporeal suffering is established to be the core of this meaning. |
| Supervisor | Szakács, Béla Zsolt |
| Department | Medieval Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2019/bardits_eva.pdf |
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