Art in the Service of a Holy War: A Call for a Crusade in a Guercino Painting

• Autores: Daniel M. Unger
• Localización: Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, ISSN 0044-2992, Vol. 68, Nº. 4, 2005, págs. 489-500
• Idioma: inglés
• Texto completo no disponible (Saber más ...)
• Resumen

  • The writer suggests that a 1620 altarpiece by Guercino, generally thought to show the entry of St William Count of Poitou and Duke of Aquitaine into a monastic order, represents a call for a crusade. He identifies the figure of the knight in the painting as an earlier St William who participated in one of the proto-crusades in 11th-century Europe, and argues that the scene shows not St William receiving the habit but St William receiving the pope's blessing before departing for a crusade.