Embracing the Cross, a liturgical gesture

Author

Wilberding, Erick

Document type

Article (journal)

Language

English

Source

Source : notes in the history of art. 1989, Num. 2, Vol. 8, p. 1-5, 3 ill.

ISSN

0737-4453

Abstract (en)

Examines the iconography of arms crossed before the chest (especially in Annunciation scenes) in painting and manuscript illumination, 14th-17th cs., and its origin in a liturgical gesture prescribed in pre-Tridentine rubrics of the Mass influenced by Amalarius of Metz. Notes that the gesture, which connotes the submission of the crucified Christ, came to express the embracing of the Cross.

Subject (en)

• General works -- Iconography
• Mass (liturgy)
• 1300-1700
• Painting
• Amalarius von Metz, archbishop of Trier, ca.775-ca.850
• Cross
• Manuscript illumination
• Gesture
• Jesus Christ: Crucifixion
• Liturgy
• Iconography
• Mary, Virgin: Annunciation
• Christian iconography

Subject (fr)

• Généralités -- Iconographie
• Messe
• 1300-1700
• Peinture
• Amalaire, archevêque de Trèves, v.775-v.850
• Croix [iconographie]
• Enluminure
• Geste
• Christ: Crucifixion
• Liturgie
• Iconographie
• Vierge: Annonciation
• Iconographie chrétienne

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19910101-00446735

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