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Item Number: 132396
Title: A Body for Glory : Theology of the Body in the Papal Collections : The Ancients, Michelangelo and John Paul II
Author: Lev, Elizabeth ; Jose Granados
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9788882713157
Description: Citta del Vaticano: Edizioni Musei Vaticani, 2014. 24cm., pbk., 88pp. illus. English text. Summary: The enigma of the body is the theme of this concise volume. The text retraces and narrates the habits and customs of ancient peoples, religious cults and artistic ideals. The Egyptians, their funerary rites and the concept of immortality; Ancient Greece and the ideal of beauty and perfection; the Romans, the concept of strength and the representation of the emperors as gods; Christianity, the suffering of the body and the Resurrection; and Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel, from the Creation of man to the universal Judgement. A transverse path that takes as its fulcrum the dynamic connection between Art and Theology, assisted by the teachings of John Paul II, explores the mystery of the body, its relationship with the spirit, its “functions” in religion and its representation in art, in particular the meanings and expressions it has assumed in these areas as a locus of beauty and strength, pain and corruption, ephemeral and eternal, arriving at an understanding of what the glory of the body is.
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