 | | © by Ewa Kuryluk
c/o Wydawnictwo Literackie
ul. Dluga 1
31-147 Cracow
tel., fax: +48 12 422 54 23
e-mail: redakcja@wl.interkom.pl
1st edition 1998
book size: 14.4 x 20.5 cm
length: 348 pages + 20 pages of illustrations
paperback
ISBN: 83-08-02816-0
1st edition in English by the author (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1991) |
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Ewa KurylukVeronica and her Cloth
excerpt
The Polish edition of this known painter, writer, art historian's book, bearing the subtitle History, Symbolism and Structure of a "True" Imagine, is a superb study on the motif of the "true" portrait of Christ in art, in which the author reconstructs the Christian legend of this image, describing the outline of its history in the East and West, showing the link of this phenomenon with ancient mythology, as well as explaining to the reader the subject of "vera icon" (true likeness) in the art of Byzantium and the West.
As we read in the introduction to this fascinating study: "Although the head-cloth of Veronica took on a different meaning, the sexual symbolism did not disappear. Quite the opposite, it was strengthened by the mystical eroticism and artistic realism of the late Middle Ages. The fifteenth century images of Veronica and Christ are portraits of living people, and at the same time representations of a pair of gods."
"Veronica's piece of cloth is a symbol. As the author has rightly stated: egalitarian, universally accessible 'where the image speaks more to the man than the word'. From canvas is born a living portrait." (Gazeta Wyborcza in Cracow)
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