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- Title
'"Je ne sçay quoy d'éclattant et de noir'. The rhetoric of chiaroscuro and the emergence of the subject in Pierre Le Moyne's Les Peintures morales".
- Abstract
The Jesuit eloquence referred to as "painterly" is dependent on a rich optical imagery: light, mirrors, anamorphosis... This article aims to study the tenebrist side of these visual metaphors. Les Peintures morales and Les Hymnes show that chiaroscuro plays a central role in Pierre Le Moyne's sacred sophistry, by suggesting the encounter of divine clarity with a human subject blinded by sin and finitude, but capable of receiving it.
- Subjects
JESUITS; ANAMORPHOSIS (Visual perception); OPTICAL illusions; VISUAL perception; CHIAROSCURO
- Publication
Revue Bossuet, 2022, Issue 13, p222
- ISSN
2117-8844
- Publication type
Article