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Medientyp:
E-Artikel
Titel:
Visualizing the Art of Dying in Early Protestant Scandinavia: A Reading of a Late Sixteenth-Century Tapestry from Leksvik, Norway
Beteiligte:
Aavitsland, Kristin B.
Erschienen:
Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2014
Erschienen in:Journal of Early Modern Christianity
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1515/jemc-2014-0003
ISSN:
2196-6648;
2196-6656
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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title>
<jats:p>The article offers a close reading of a remarkable late 16-th century tapestry from Leksvik Church in Norway. Abounding with biblical quotations in Danish, the tapestry represents a dying man surrounded by personifications of virtues. The author considers this artifact a visualized <jats:italic>ars moriendi</jats:italic>, and shows how the tapestry’s iconography draws on standard metaphors from contemporary consolatory literature. Furthermore, the tapestry’s visual rhetoric alludes to, interplays with, and, at times, contradicts the late medieval conventions for visualizing the good death. By modulating a long-established deathbed iconography, the visual language of the Leksvik tapestry subtly steer towards a new, Protestant interpretation on the ideal death.</jats:p>