An Illustrated Speculum Humanae Salvationis

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melinda Nielsen
Keyword(s):  
Speculum Humanae Salvationis

Seven Sacraments Compositions in English Medieval Art

1929 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. McN. Rushforth
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Old Testament ◽  
Religious Art ◽  
Medieval Art ◽  
Christian Art ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Great Tradition ◽  
Speculum Humanae Salvationis ◽  
Church Art ◽  
The Church

Émile Mâle says that medieval Christian art in its last period had lost touch with the great tradition of symbolism which had been so important in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and still largely dominated the art of the fourteenth. But there was one great symbolical idea which survived, and that was the harmony of the Old and New Testaments; and so we find among the most popular subjects of fifteenth-century Church art the concordance of the Apostles and Prophets in the Creed, and the series of parallels between the life of Jesus and episodes of Old Testament history, which were summed up and digested in the Biblia Pauperum and the Speculum Humanae Salvationis. The reason for the popularity of these subjects was, no doubt, their didactic value, and though Mâle does not develop this side of the subject, we may say that one, though not the only, characteristic of the religious art of the fifteenth century was that, instead of being symbolical, it became didactic. We find in this period a whole series of subjects which reduced the articles of Christian faith and practice to pictorial form, and seem to have been intended to illustrate the medieval catechism by which the teaching of the Church was imparted.

scholarly journals Dos conjuntos funerarios episcopales de la catedral de Pamplona en el siglo XIV: la capilla funeraria de Miguel Pérez de Legaria y el sepulcro de Miguel Sánchez de Asiáin

2021 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 209-240
Author(s):  
Clara Fernández-Ladreda Aguadé
Keyword(s):  
Speculum Humanae Salvationis

Se analizan dos conjuntos funerarios episcopales del siglo XIV pertenecientes a la catedral de Pamplona. En el caso del primero, el del obispo Miguel Pérez de Legaria (1287-1304), compuesto por tumba y capilla funeraria –ambas desaparecidas–, se destaca que se trataría de la más antigua capilla funeraria privativa construida exprofeso en Navarra, y se plantean hipótesis sobre su estructura, localización y cronología. En el del segundo, el de Miguel Sánchez de Asiáin (1357-1364), integrado solo por el sepulcro, se llama la atención sobre la existencia de más vínculos con Italia de los señalados hasta el momento, el empleo del Speculum Humanae Salvationis como fuente textual del conjunto del programa figurativo y la excepcionalidad de la iconografía de la Doble intercesión en el contexto europeo e hispano, para concluir con el planteamiento de la posible identidad del promotor.

Zum Speculum Humanae Salvationis

PMLA ◽  
1899 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 137-168
Author(s):  
H. Schmidt-Wartenberg
Keyword(s):  
Speculum Humanae Salvationis

Das speculum humanae salvationis gehört zu der grossen anzahl theologisch moralisirender gedichte des mittelalters, denen zwar vom aesthetisch literarischen Standpunkt aus nur geringer wert beigelegt werden kann, die aber kulturgeschichtlich eine nicht zu unterschätzende bedeutung gehabt haben. Wie sehr diese dichtung dazu beigetragen hat has geistige interesse des volks rege zu erhalten, erhellt, ganz abgesehen von dem künstlerischen beiwerk der illustrationen, schon aus dem umstande, dass sie mehrfach gegenstand der übersetzung und überarbeitung gewesen ist, nicht nur in Deutschland, wo das werk höchstwahrscheinlich entstanden ist, sondern auch in den nachbarländern.

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