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A seventeenth-century drawing now preserved in the Archives de l’État, Liège, records what must have been a spectacular retable from the Benedictine abbey of Stavelot, Belgium, made under the abbot Wibald in the middle of the twelfth century. Containing a series of images from the life of the founder of the abbey, Remaclus, the retable also had two intriguing inscriptions wrapping around its edge. One named Abbot Wibald as patron and recounted the object’s cost; the other listed a series of properties held by the monastery. Though the drawing has long been treasured by art historians as witness to an early altarpiece, the way in which the retable presents its own making has not been analyzed. This essay examines the perimeter texts, two surviving medallions depicting the personifications of Fides and Operatio, and the themes of the narrative images to reconsider how the production of the retable was presented to, and remembered for, its public, a community of lay, aristocratic, and monastic viewers. The imagery and inscriptions of this altar, I suggest, reveal themes of obligation that extend beyond the abbot to the community at large, and cast the making of the object as the fulfillment of Christian duty.
现在保存在列日国家档案馆(Archives de l‘État,Liège)的一幅七世纪的画作记录了12世纪中期在修道院院长威博尔德(Wibald)的领导下从比利时斯塔维洛(Stavelot)的本笃会修道院(Benedictine abbey)创作的一幅壮观的壁画。复刻塔包含了一系列修道院创始人雷马克洛斯的生活图像,其边缘还包裹着两个有趣的铭文。其中一位名叫维博尔德修道院院长(Abbot Wibald),并讲述了这件物品的成本;另一份列出了修道院持有的一系列财产。尽管这幅画长期以来一直被艺术史学家视为早期祭坛画的见证,但这幅壁画展示自己制作的方式尚未得到分析。本文考察了周边文本、两个幸存的奖章,这些奖章描绘了Fides和Operatio的人格化,以及叙事图像的主题,以重新考虑如何向公众——一个由世俗、贵族和修道院观众组成的群体——展示和记住可重复性的作品。我认为,这座祭坛的图像和铭文揭示了从住持到整个社区的义务主题,并将物品的制作视为基督教义务的履行。
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