Speaker:
Paul Nelles
Fellow MIAS - François Chevalier
Casa de Velázquez
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The seminar explores the intersection of materiality, mobility, and religion in the early modern world through a discussion of two artefacts: a polychrome wood sculpture from the Franciscan convent in Valladolid depicting the entombment of Christ (Juan de Juni, Santo Entierro, 1543), and a Valladolid reliquary enclosing a thread from the cordón of one of the 1597 Franciscan martyrs of Nagasaki. The artefacts are positioned as connected objects offering a point of entry into the sensorial and emotional fields of experiential religion in the early modern world. The seminar locates the artefacts within shared paradigms concerning the geographic displacement of the physical materials of religion: in this case, blood.
Fig.: Juan de Juni, Santo Entierro, 1543 (detail). Museo Nacional de Escultura, Valladolid, inv. A25. Foto: Paul Nelles.
