COMMON SENSE APPROACH TO THE RESTORATION OF SACRED ART
Journal Title: Studia Gilsoniana - Year 2014, Vol 3, Issue
Abstract
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.
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Alphonso Lopez Pinto
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