A Crucifixão de Matthias Grünewald à Luz de Uma Teologia Protestante da Imagem

Abstract

This is an analysis of the Issenheim central panel retable in a theological protestant perspective of image. The religious image function will be placed on the context of pre-reformers and reformers movement of the 16th century. In contrast against the iconoclast outbreak, one creates a new representation style of Christ crucified aspect according to the appearing of a new kind of spirituality that has its center in the meditation about Jesus passion and death. In a second moment, the Grunewald painting’s expressiveness will be emphasized in the context of Paul Tillich’s theology of art and his vision about expressionism as a way of telling the existence rupture and transcendence irruption.