Author(s): Silveira, João Carlos de Noronha e, 1984-
Date: 2013
Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10451/9039
Origin: Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa
Subject(s): Vicente, Gil, 1465?-1537; Portugal. Rei, 1495-1521 (Manuel I); Custódias; Corpo de Deus; Iconografia
Tese de mestrado, Ciências da Arte e do Património, Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Belas Artes, 2013
Made with the first gold tribute payed by the sultanate of Kilwa to D. Manuel I (r. 1496-1521), the Belem Monstrance (1506) is the most discussed and praised Portuguese goldsmith work since the 19th century. Image of Images: the Belem Monstrance (1506-1521) discusses its significance – theological, liturgical, political and iconographic – in the reign of its commissioner and donor to the Belem Monastery. In order to do so, it proposes an unprecedented fortune critique, an indespensable instrument to contemporary problematization, taking the monstrance for an image of many images. Images that art history must identify and map in order to produce its own new and scientifically valid images of the object. Neglected questions in past research, like the the importance of Sofala to the Portuguese crown, Eucharistic theology, medieval political-teology and the Royal Chapel’s liturgy are central to this inquire. The identification of the «mobbed owl» motife made possible some groundbreaking speculations about the bestiary of the Belem Monstrance
