书名：The Trees of the Cross: Wood as Subject and Medium in the Art of Late Medieval Germany / 十字架之树：晚期中世纪德国艺术中的木材主题与媒介
定价：538.0
ISBN：9780300267655
作者：Gregory C. Bryda
版次：1
出版时间：2023-06

内容提要：

书名：The Trees of the Cross: Wood as Subject and Medium in the Art of Late Medieval Germany / 十字架之树：晚期中世纪德国艺术中的木材主题与媒介

作者：Gregory C. Bryda

出版：Yale University Press ，2023

装帧：精装，224页

语种：英文

尺寸：22.1*28.3 cm

 

 

《十字架之树：中世纪德国宗教艺术中木材的物质、生态与象征意义探索》

 

在中世纪晚期的德国，木材是一种充满意义的材料。它不仅是当地环境和经济的重要组成部分，而且本身就是宗教虔诚的对象。格雷戈里·C·布莱达（Gregory C·Bryda）探讨了宗教艺术中木材和绿色的多重意义——作为一种材料、农耕生活的一个特征，以及十字架的象征。十字架的木材与礼拜仪式中的其他图像学有着共鸣。布莱达讨论了像以伊森海姆祭坛画闻名的马蒂亚斯·格吕内瓦尔德（Matthias Grünewald）和著名雕塑家蒂尔曼·里门施奈德（Tilman Riemenschneider）这样的有影响力的艺术家，是如何利用木材的多重性质将精神主题与教堂墙外的现实生活环境联系起来的。通过对这一时期复杂的视觉与物质文化的探索，这本图文并茂的著作展示了从宏伟的祭坛画到便携式画作的各种作品，并提供了新的视角：在艺术中，木材如何成为解锁信仰与自然世界奥秘的关键，无论是在礼拜仪式还是日常生活中。

 

这段文字清晰地介绍了布莱达的研究主题、研究方法和研究成果，以及他对中世纪晚期德国宗教艺术中木材多重意义的深入探索。

 

A revelatory exploration of wood’s many material, ecological, and symbolic meanings in the religious art of medieval Germany

 

In late medieval Germany, wood was a material laden with significance. It was an important part of the local environment and economy, as well as an object of religious devotion in and of itself.  Gregory C. Bryda examines the multiple meanings of wood and greenery within religious art—as a material, as a feature of agrarian life, and as a symbol of the cross, whose wood has resonances with other iconographies in the liturgy. Bryda discusses how influential artists such as Matthias Grünewald, known for the Isenheim Altarpiece, and the renowned sculptor Tilman Riemenschneider exploited wood’s multivalent nature to connect spiritual themes to the lived environment outside church walls. Exploring the complex visual and material culture of the period, this lavishly illustrated volume features works ranging from monumental altarpieces to portable pictures and offers a fresh understanding of how wood in art functioned to unlock the mysteries of faith and the natural world in both liturgy and everyday life.