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T1 Mary’s transparent beauty in St. Bernard’s aesthetics
A1 Pradier Sebastián, Adrián
K1 Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 1091-1153
K1 Bernardo, Santo - Crítica e interpretación
K1 Theologians - France
K1 Philosophy & Religion
K1 Mariology
K1 Mariologia
K1 María, Santa Virgen
K1 Aesthetics
K1 Estética
K1 Literature - Aesthetics
K1 Arts - Philosophy
K1 Aesthetics, Medieval
K1 Estética medieval
K1 Medieval Philosophy
K1 Filosofia medieval
K1 72 Filosofía
K1 5101.10 Religión
AB The subject of the beauty of the Virgin Mary was a delicate one in medieval aesthetic thought. Halfway between the sacred and the profane, the theological and the anthropological, the question of Mary’s beauty opened up a strictly material dimension of appreciation that could generate problems related to decorum. However, the progressive humanization of Marian images from the thirteenth century onwards invites us to wonder if there was not, after all, a way to balance or, better, to sublimate the immaterial beauty of Mary, Mother of God, and material beauty of Mary, the young virgin of Nazareth. Taking as our leitmotiv a fictional scene from Umberto Eco’s novel The Name of the Rose, we will analyze St. Bernard’s position on this issue, because he was particularly influential on this matter in his own time and later, since his work brings together not only Marian concerns of deep theological depth, but also aesthetic questions that can contribute to clarifying this question.
PB MDPI
SN 2077-1444
YR 2023
FD 2023
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/63947
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/63947
LA eng
NO Religions, 2023, Vol. 14, Nº. 4, 471
NO Producción Científica
DS UVaDOC
RD 17-may-2024