Émilie Roffidal et Claire Rousseau, Du saint dominicain au docteur commun : Thomas D’aquin et ses représentations (XIVe-XXe Siècle) (Dissertationes Historicae 42), Viella 2024, pp. 212, ill. ISBN: 979-12-5469-572-2. Price: € 50,-.
The volume, edited by the art historians Émilie Roffidal and Claire Rousseau, is dedicated to the iconography of St. Thomas Aquinas –an important figure in the history of the Order, the Church and intellectual history– on the occasion of his triple jubilee: 700 years since his canonisation, 750 years since his death and 800 years since his birth, celebrated from 28 January 2023 to 28 January 2025. Nine contributions by various authors deal with the beginnings and spread of the iconography of St. Thomas and the historical-spiritual context in which such representations were disseminated.
Quoting the author of the introduction, Christian Heck, the book represents “a profoundly new contribution to our knowledge of the iconography of Thomas Aquinas, in a geographical area extending as far as the New World and in a completely open chronological framework, from the years immediately following the saint’s death to the middle of the 20th century. Art history here brilliantly confirms how much the analysis of figurative representations enriches cultural history and history in general.”
The volume was published by Viella and can be ordered from the publisher.
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