Voices from altarpieces: Making sense of the sacred
Emma Nežinská
Abstract The article is a cultural-philosophical response to Ivan Gerát’s Legendary Scenes and his art history interpretation of the function Slovak hagiographic pictorial Late Middle Ages. thrust on paintings Christian ethical extremism, reflected in principle imitatio Christi . It led deaths martyrs saints name Faith. preponderance brutal scenes involving tortured human body this period examined detail it suggested that these portrayals are disincentives put off mass culture beholder. contextualist method employed book gradually explored, along with its potential transform uninterested postmodern beholder into an intelligent tourist. Attention paid educational national branding aspects
Human Affairs