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The Art Of Faith

A Lent and Easter jounrey through Duccio's Maesta

  • Paperback
  • 57 pages
  • Publisher: Redemptorist
  • 19.5 x 21.6 x 0.7 cm

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In this inspiring series of reflections on episodes from the life of Jesus, Sr Wendy Beckett guides us around a selection of panels from the Maestà altarpiece. Duccio completed his great masterpiece for the high altar of Siena Cathedral in 1311 but rather than seeing these paintings as something from a bygone age, Sr Wendy challenges us to examine how Duccio’s representations offer us new meaning in our lives today.
  • Author

    Wendy Beckett

  • Book Format

    paperback

  • Publisher

    Redemptorist

  • Published

    January 2007

  • Weight

    240g

  • Page Count

    57

  • Dimensions

    19.5 x 21.6 x 0.7 cm

  • ISBN

    9780852313350

  • ISBN-10

    0852313357

  • Eden Code

    1145307

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    These meditations are inspired by the component scenes of Duccio’s (1311) Maestà, and first appeared weekly, presumably to coincide with the Sunday Gospels of Lent and Eastertide. The only one in Lent that does not ‘fit’ is that for the second Sunday which should have shown the Transfiguration, but is replaced here by the Agony in the Garden. Eastertide is less closely matched. How remarkable that an art work can be used in this way, especially so since the sequence of Gospels in the modern liturgy did not come into existence until the 1960’s! It would therefore have been so helpful to have had a plan of the complete work if possible (it was dismembered in 1711) to relate the parts to the whole.