RT Article
T1 Giorgione’s Homage to the Eucharist
JF Religion and the arts
VO 29
IS 3
SP 301
OP 349
A1 Schier, Rudolf
LA English
YR 2025
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1929230710
AB In the context of the Italian reformation movements in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, this paper examines the influence of the Transubstantiation and Real Presence controversies on Giorgione’s painting known as the Homage to a Poet. The picture is seen as a development of the treatment of this subject in Raphael’s frescos La Disputa and Mass at Bolsano and in the illustrations of the statute books of the Venetian Confraternities of the Most Holy Sacrament. Several analogies to the Allendale Nativity are noted. The main figure in Giorgione’s picture is identified as a fusion of the Man of Sorrows and Ecce Homo images, representing the Eucharist on the altar. The other figures are interpreted to be Aeneas, Tabitha, and Cornelius (Acts 10:34–43). The conversion of bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ is exemplified in the painting by the conversion narrative uniting these three secondary figures.
K1 Ecce Homo
K1 man of sorrows
K1 Transubstantiation
K1 Acts of the Apostles
K1 Schools of the Most Holy Sacrament
K1 Raphael’s frescos
K1 Homage to a Poet
K1 Giorgione
DO 10.1163/15685292-02903001