Salvation through Meditation: The Tomb Frescoes in the Holy Confessors Chapel at Santa Croce in Florence
1995; University of Chicago Press; Volume: 34; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/767126
ISSN2169-3099
Autores Tópico(s)Historical and Religious Studies of Rome
ResumoThe two undocumented tomb frescoes in the Holy Confessors Chapel at Santa Croce in Florence were probably painted by Maso di Banco and Taddeo Gaddi around 1340. Representing the Last Judgment and the Entombment of Christ, they have long puzzled scholars because of their depictions of the donors, which are unusually conspicuous for this period. In the past scholars have tended to read the portraits as expressions of the patrons' hubris, typical of the emerging Renaissance emphasis on the individual. This article proposes that the purpose of the donor figures is entirely spiritual, however. Their presence suggests that the narratives are visions conjured up by the donors' pious meditations and thus transforms the scenes from mere illustrations of biblical narrative into vehicles of salvation.
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