Gregors Messe 4 - Misa de san Gregorio 4

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Título: Misa de San Gregorio

Autor: Albrecht Dürer
Fecha: 1511
Características:29,5 x 20,5 cm.
Técnica: Xilografía Europea

This print was made by Albrecht Dürer in year 1511. Its size is 29'5cm high and 20,5cm long. The artist use curved lines to shape and draw the details like the bodys' muscles of Jesus, clothes and angels' wings. He keeps the straight and lightly curved lines to full backgrounds and big areas. The composition goes from the inferior right side to the superior left where all the looks are focused.

The mass is represented in an ethereal place where there are almost no real references. We can see a literal invasion of the fantastic vision to the reality. Aparently, the mass is done in the middle of the night or in the heaven. This inserts the spectator in a kind of "dream" scene. The martyrial instruments of Christ are so tangible for the spectator that the people and objects in the "church".

I think that we can separate the space in 2, like many other cases: the celestial part with the miracle; and the witnesses who are the Papst Gregory I (5), the cardinals, bishops and acolytes (6, 7). This is the superior left side and inferior right.

The Christ sarcophag occupates half altar. Christ stands with a half of the legs in it. He is showing the scares of the hands and around him there are the martyrial instruments. Curiously he is not bleeding in the chalice like in many other representations.

We can see the cross with the s.Peters cock and the whip on it. In front of s.Gregory, who is standing on his knees next to the altar, we can find the ladder used to take Christ down from the cross leaning on it.

In front of the sarcophag there is the Veronica's veil. Between the cross and the ladder we can see the dices used by the roman soldiers to bet Jesus' clothes. The spear used by Longinus and the sponge are between the ladder, near of them there is the hammer used to hammer Christ's nails.

At the background there is the column where he was whiped, the bust of Judas floating with the 30 gold coins in the bag hanging by his neck and 2 angels descending from the clouds.

Bibliography:

• A. Thomas: Gregoriusmesse. In: Lexikon der christlichen Ikonographie, Bd. 2. Freiburg i. Br. 1970, Sp. 199-202
• J. de Borchgrave d'Altena: La messe de Saint Grégoire. In: Bulletin des Musées Royaux des Beaux Arts 8 (1959), S. 3-34
• P. Jezler (Hrsg.): Himmel, Hölle, Fegefeuer. Das Jenseits im Mittelalter
• Katalogbuch. Zürich 1994
• A. Gormanns, Th. Lentes (Hrsg.): Das Bild der Erscheinung. Die Gregorsmesse im Mittelalter. (= KultBild 3). Berlin 2007
• Ibáñez García, Miguel Ángel: La Misa de San Gregorio: Aclaraciones sobre un tema iconográfico. Un ejemplo en Pisón de Castrejón (Palencia)
• P. Hawel: Gregoriusmesse. In: Lexikon zur Kunst & Geschichte abendländischer Kultur. Hawel Verlag, München 2005, ISBN 3-9810376-0-X
• Esther Meier: Die Gregorsmesse. Funktionen eines spätmittelalterlichen Bildtypus. Böhlau, Köln u. a. 2006, ISBN 978-3-412-11805-1 (zugl. Dissertation, Universität Marburg 2003), Rezension

Real Bibliography:

• Wikipedia
• Arte historia
• Ibáñez García, Miguel Ángel: La Misa de San Gregorio: Aclaraciones sobre un tema iconográfico. Un ejemplo en Pisón de Castrejón (Palencia) (archivo pdf encontrado por internet, no sé más datos)

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