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DOI article:Dobrzeniecki, Tadeusz: Imago Pietatis: its meaning and function
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10. Imago Pietatis, Mural by Francesco d' Antonio, Santa Maria Nuova, Yiterbo (after Faldi)
for to indicate that thc Eucharist renews the redemptory death of Jesus. Below, Salomon and
David appear with their projiouncements on bread and wine, tłiese Oldtestamental prefigurations
of the Eucharist, on their scrolls (SAPIENTIA MISCUIT VINUM and PANEM CELI DEDIT
EIS respectively). The institution of the Eucharist is recallsd by St Matthew and St John
the Evangelist reprcsented at the bottom of the antepcndium.
The Eucharist has renewed not only the death of Christ but also His Resurrection. The tomb,
into which He was deposited and from which arose, is symbólized by the liturgical chalice while
the paten is a symbol of the stone that closed the entrance to the Sepulchre and the corporal —
that of the clean linen in which Jesus was wrapped by Joseph of Arimathea.69 This symbolism
gave birth to the representation of Christ in bust, emerging from the sarcophagus, having been
always understood as the tomb. The latter interpretation of the sarcophagus is attested by
a Rhenish woodcut of ca 1480 with the inscription on the stone edge: SEPULCRUM DOMINI
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for to indicate that thc Eucharist renews the redemptory death of Jesus. Below, Salomon and
David appear with their projiouncements on bread and wine, tłiese Oldtestamental prefigurations
of the Eucharist, on their scrolls (SAPIENTIA MISCUIT VINUM and PANEM CELI DEDIT
EIS respectively). The institution of the Eucharist is recallsd by St Matthew and St John
the Evangelist reprcsented at the bottom of the antepcndium.
The Eucharist has renewed not only the death of Christ but also His Resurrection. The tomb,
into which He was deposited and from which arose, is symbólized by the liturgical chalice while
the paten is a symbol of the stone that closed the entrance to the Sepulchre and the corporal —
that of the clean linen in which Jesus was wrapped by Joseph of Arimathea.69 This symbolism
gave birth to the representation of Christ in bust, emerging from the sarcophagus, having been
always understood as the tomb. The latter interpretation of the sarcophagus is attested by
a Rhenish woodcut of ca 1480 with the inscription on the stone edge: SEPULCRUM DOMINI
16