Humility, the path that leads to glory

Paulo Ondarza – Vatican City

We are living in the holy week, the wonderful photo guidelines extracted from the treasures of the Vatican Apostolic Library. Barb. no. 610, especially the valuable sample in the artistic scene, Florentin between the end of the fifteenth century and the early sixteenth century, provides us with some scenes of passion in which we think these days. It is a manuscript created between 1494 and 1502 for the beginning of San Juan in Florence.

The illustration is the work of the Monte Di Giovanni di miniato, also known as Fora, which is a manufacturer, can be identified to strike thick brush and use a diverse color range. He was active in Florence in late fifteenth and the beginning of the next.

The Eucharist Foundation (© Vatican Apostolic Library)

gospel Sunday palm

On the Circuit of the Paper 185, several moments were summarized in Palm Sunday and Holy Dhosts: in the center, the scene of the entrance in Jerusalem, the background, another dinner and at the forefront, the Eucharist is represented, while in the lower plate the prayer is represented in the garden. The evocation of the “feet wash” is particularly effective through things that overflow the frame, and leaves the plate almost: fabric, a pair of unleashed shoes, jugs, and Palangana. The different expressions of students and the eyes of Jesus directed at them are also very important and eloquent.

Details (© Vatican Apostolic Library)

And vI am across

Fast and detailed scenes from Crucis via VAT manuscript. Lat.2639. Jesus holds Madeiro de la Cruz, goes out to meet the women of Jerusalem crying and tells you: “Do not cry for me, but for you and for your children.” This clarification is directed, along with the images of cinematic filming, with those that were dominated by Christ on the cross and those in the steel.

Via Crucis (© fetican propostolic libary) scenes

The latter is rich in details: the mother who fainted in the arms of John, the three men who embody the prophecy, throw the garment of Christ, the Romanian soldier Longino who crosses the side of the Son of God with a spear from which he wins blood and water.

Resurrection (© Vatican Apostolic Library)

Like PINTURa in the Middle Ages

When choosing this acting method, it appears that the miniature wants to suggest typical solutions to the huge platelet paint, both for icons and the page organization. The authors of the complex illustration, made of a varying and varied color collection, are Stefano de Alberto Azzi and Niccolo de Jiacomo de Nasminbine. This is proposed through stylistic analysis, but also the company in the manuscript papers through which the name “Nicolaus de Bonia” can be read, one of the most abundant and complex characters in the Boloñés artistic scene in the last quarter of the fourteenth century. The manuscript contains several treaties of Giovanni Da Legnano, one of the most brilliant jurists in the fourteenth century, the teacher of liberal arts and ecclesiastical law in Bologna; The texts are copied in Gothic writing, in two columns.

Las Maras in the grave with the angel (© Vatican Apostolic Library)

Resurrection

Always to Barb mentioned above. no. 610, on the other hand, Easter scenes indicate. It is drawn in the straight of the leaf 193 and present, within the Resurrexi et Adhuc Tecum SUM, the Marias scene in the grave and the angel, and in the medal of the historian of the lower margin, the image of the resurrection of Christ.

Words of Pope Francis

(Pope Francis – Easter 2015)