Ad Imaginem Dei: Links for Holy Week

Friday, March 22, 2024

Links for Holy Week

Giotto, Jesus Washes the Feet of Peter
Italian, 1304-1306
Padua, Scrovegni/Arena Chapel (detail)

I won't be blogging anything new during the next few weeks, which include Holy Week (March 24 - 27) and the Paschal Triduum (March 28, 29, 30). Instead I am providing links to the numerous essays I have written in recent years about the art associated with these days. I will be updating some of these essays with new or refreshed images, so some of them may be unavailable from time to time.

Please use the links below to access them.

Also watch the Featured Posts section on the right for direct links to various associated articles. You may particularly wish to click on the links to the images associated with the Stations of the Cross and the Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary, both popular devotional prayers recalling the events of Holy Week.


Day	Title	Date Published	Link
*Palm Sunday*	Holy Week with Giotto, Palm Sunday	April 17, 2011	http://imaginemdei.blogspot.com/2011/04/holy-week-with-giotto-palm-sunday.html
	Entering Jerusalem, the Hinge to the Passion	April 9, 2017	http://imaginemdei.blogspot.com/2017/04/entering-jerusalem-hinge-to-passion.html

*Monday and* *Tuesday*	Holy Week with Giotto – Jesus and Judas	April 19, 2011	http://imaginemdei.blogspot.com/2011/04/holy-week-with-giotto-jesus-and-judas.html

*Wednesday*	Holy Week with Giotto – Judas’ Betrayal I	April 20, 2011	http://imaginemdei.blogspot.com/2011/04/holy-week-with-giotto-judas-betrayal-i.html
	Spy Wednesday -- Thirty Pieces of Silver	April 1, 2015	http://imaginemdei.blogspot.com/2015/04/spy-wednesday-thirty-pieces-of-silver.html

*Thursday*	Holy Week with Giotto – Holy Thursday, Washing Feet	April 21, 2011	http://imaginemdei.blogspot.com/2011/04/holy-week-with-giotto-holy-thursday.html
	Holy Thursday	April 5, 2012	http://imaginemdei.blogspot.com/2012/04/holy-thursday.html
	Holy Week with Giotto – Judas’ Betrayal II, the Kiss	April 20, 2011	http://imaginemdei.blogspot.com/2011/04/holy-week-with-giotto-judas-betrayal-ii.html

Friday	Holy Week with Giotto – Good Friday, Overnight, Christ Before Caiaphas	April 21, 2011	http://imaginemdei.blogspot.com/2011/04/holy-week-with-giotto-good-friday.html
	Holy Week with Giotto – Good Friday, Early Morning, Mocking of Christ	April 21, 2011	http://imaginemdei.blogspot.com/2011/04/holy-week-with-giotto-good-friday-early.html
	Holy Week with Giotto – Good Friday, Mid-Morning, Via Crucis	April 22, 2011	http://imaginemdei.blogspot.com/2011/04/holy-week-with-giotto-good-friday-mid.html
	Holy Week with Giotto – Good Friday, Early Afternoon, the Crucifixion	April 22, 2011	http://imaginemdei.blogspot.com/2011/04/holy-week-with-giotto-good-friday-early_22.html
	Holy Week with Giotto – Good Friday, Late Afternoon, the Lamentation	April 22, 2011	http://imaginemdei.blogspot.com/2011/04/holy-week-with-giotto-good-friday-late.html

Saturday	Holy Saturday	April 23, 2011	http://imaginemdei.blogspot.com/2011/04/holy-saturday.html
	O, Key of David! Come, break down the walls of death!	December 20, 2011	http://imaginemdei.blogspot.com/2011/12/o-key-of-david.html
	Exult! – The Easter Proclamation	March 30, 2013	http://imaginemdei.blogspot.com/2013/03/exult-easter-proclamation.html
	The Day of Gloom and the Coming of the Light Something Strange Is Happening Today © M. Duffy, 2024	April 4, 2015 April 8, 2023	http://imaginemdei.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-day-of-gloom-and-coming-of-light.html https://imaginemdei.blogspot.com/2011/12/o-key-of-david.html

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Uniquely among the monotheistic religions Christianity permits the use of images of God. Why? The answer lies in the Christian belief in the reality of the Incarnation. Since God has assumed human nature and form the Biblical prohibition against making images of God ceases to apply. As the second Council of Nicea declared in 787 "Following the divinely inspired teaching of our holy Fathers and the tradition of the Catholic Church (for we know that this tradition comes from the Holy Spirit who dwells in her) we rightly define with full certainty and correctness that, like the figure of the precious and life-giving cross, venerable and holy images of our Lord and God and Savior, Jesus Christ, our inviolate Lady, the holy Mother of God, and the venerated angels, all the saints and the just, whether painted or made of mosaic or another suitable material, are to be exhibited in the holy churches of God, on sacred vessels and vestments, walls and panels, in houses and on streets."
(Council of Nicaea II: DS 600)

This decree of Nicea II was promulgated for the entire church, both Greek and Latin speaking, and was a response to the strongly held beliefs of the iconoclasts, who wished to suppress the use of images, which had convulsed the Byzantine Empire and the eastern churches for almost 100 years. In addition, St. John Damascene, last of the Greek Fathers and a staunch defender of images, had written in De imagine ("In Defense of Images") "Of old, God the incorporeal and uncircumscribed was never depicted. Now, however, when God is seen clothed in flesh, and conversing with men, (Bar. 3.38) I make an image of the God whom I see. I do not worship matter, I worship the God of matter, who became matter for my sake, and deigned to inhabit matter, who worked out my salvation through matter." (St. John Damascene, De Imagine, Part I, 15-16, from Internet Medieival Sourcebook.)

The ways in which this imaging of the divine has been accomplished in the course of time is the subject of Christian iconography. To quote from the Merriam-Webster dictionary, iconography is "1: pictorial material relating to or illustrating a subject; 2: the traditional or conventional images or symbols associated with a subject and especially a religious or legendary subject; 3: the imagery or symbolism of a work of art, an artist, or a body of art".

The iconography of any subject develops and changes over time. Christian iconography develops and changes too, as reflection on the Gospels and Tradition develops over time and as the act of making art develops and changes as well. This is the background for this blog.

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