The last judgement and the mass of Saint Gregory (MASP 428P): altarpiece painting and Eucharist in the late Middle Ages

Author(s)

Doglas Morais Lubarino

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD)
• Defense date: 2015-08-21

Examining board members

Maria Cristina Correia Leandro Pereira; Ana Paula Tavares Magalhães Tacconi; Angelita Marques Visalli

• Advisor: Maria Cristina Correia Leandro Pereira

Abstract

Still little known and studied, the altarpiece painting The Last Judgment and the Mass of Saint Gregory is one of the rare late-medieval works in Brazil as part of the collection in the Museum of Art of São Paulo (MASP). This work was produced in Valencia to be the central panel of an abbey in Burgundy, France. Despite the excellent opportunity to study it presents for historians of medieval art, it has not been, so far, a detailed research object. Our goal, therefore, is to analyse such piece, paying attention in particular to the various elements in it that refer to the Eucharist, and that makes it a fertile object of study about this sacrament in the late Middle Ages. To accomplish this task, we based our work on the analysis and interpretation of the piece following the formal, stylistic and iconographic reading methods used in Art History, also relating our object to the historical context of production and reception, through a review of the documentation and of its history until it reaches the MASP collection. To reach this goal, we divided our work in two main axes. In the first one, we will discuss about the image as a material object and we study its history and its support. In the second one, we will analyse its iconography relating to the Eucharistic sacrament and its saving characteristic and thereby we will investigate how this panel relates to the process of legitimation of the Eucharistic realism in the context in which the picture was produced and exposed in the late Middle Ages. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 12/20027-8 - The Last Judgment and the Mass of Saint Gregory: Art and Eucharistic doctrine in Valence in the fifteenth century.
• Grantee: Doglas Morais Lubarino
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master