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- Title
ŠVENTASIS KANKINYS KAIP ŠVENTŲJŲ PIRMAVAIZDŽIO IR GLOBĖJO KRISTAUS AT SPINDYS XVII A. POEZIJOJE: „KRAUJU TAPYTAS“ JUOZAPATO KUNCEVIČIAUS PAVEIKSLAS.
- Authors
Daukšienė, Ona
- Abstract
This article discusses and analyses the early poetic sources related to Josaphat Kuntsevych: the two long and poorly researched Latin cycles of epigrams accompanying the poem Iosaphatidos sive de nece Josaphat Kuncewicz [...] libri tres (1628) and the biography of Josaphat Cursus vitae, et certamen martyrii B. Iosaphat Kuncevicii (1665), written by Jakub Susza. The ten epigrams of the Iosaphatidos cycle (devoted to "separate examples of Josaphat Kuntsevych's virtues") are distinguished by their poetical mastery and the merits of their epigrammatic Baroque style. They are characterized by the play of contrasting meanings and unexpectedly "sharp" final phrases. In the epigrams of the Susza's cycle one can perceive the influence of the earlier cycle's epigrams. Both cycles' epigrams are related by the originally structured system of poetic images that frames certain hagiographic episodes associated with St. Josaphat. In the hagiographic thread of the martyrdom the polysemantic symbolism of blood and water dominates. The final epigram X of the Iosaphatidos cycle is especially worth mentioning. It represents the symbolic image drawn by the future saint himself. The text of the epigram appears enter to into polemics with the emblematic and armorial tradition that celebrate the family and the noble parents of the hero: the wall image painted with the blood of Kuntsevych correlates with the face of Christ - the prototype of all Christian martyrs imprinted on St. Veronica's Kerchief or the Shroud of Turin. The analysis of the text reveals this epigram's connections with the symbolism of the image "painted" with Christ's blood that is rendered in contemporaneous Latin Jesuit poetry. This symbolism uses the analogous means of an image system to encode the message of an illustrated mystery: the image of a martyr - not beautified and not allegorized - which is drawn with real blood and is beautiful in its imperfection. There is no need for high-origin genealogy for its value to be confirmed and, one can maintain that the only "patron" immortalized in it is Christ himself.
- Subjects
THAILAND; SYMBOLIST movement (Art); SAINTS; EPIGRAM; MEDIEVAL &; modern Latin Jesuit poetry
- Publication
Acta Academiae Artium Vilnensis, 2011, Issue 60, p99
- ISSN
1392-0316
- Publication type
Article