COMMON SENSE APPROACH TO THE RESTORATION OF SACRED ART

• Authors: Alphonso Lopez Pinto
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In this paper, Sacred Art is examined as an imitation of historia. Historia interprets historical human events as empirical, material and real while seeking to understand their moral and spiritual significance. It is from historia that sacred art can be understood, where Christ and the saints are portrayed in the integrity of their human natures united to symbols representing Divinity or grace in order to present a visual/contemplative narrative. Mortimer Adler rightly sees that the vision of the beautiful is inherently contemplative, thus sacred iconography provides a language that can form the common sense of men and women.

Keywords

EN

historia; imitation; sacred art; contemplation; common sense

• Publisher: International Étienne Gilson Society
• Journal: Studia Gilsoniana
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 3: supplement
• Pages: 537-545

Dates

published

2014

Contributors

author

Alphonso Lopez Pinto

• Holy Apostles College and Seminary, Cromwell, CT, USA

Identifiers

ISSN

2300-0066