Theatrum sacrum
Theatrum sacrum (Latin for "holy theater" ) refers to the visual representation of Christian salvation history in connection with the art-historical style epochs of the Baroque and Rococo , including "theatrical" effects, which should evoke emotional effects such as amazement, surprise and overwhelm in the viewer.
Behind this was the endeavor, in view of the high proportion of illiterate people in the population at that time, to convey the doctrine of salvation directly in a visual-sensitive manner and through comprehensible experience. The preferred artistic means used for this purpose were extreme display of magnificence, lively composition , warm colors and dramatic facial expressions and gestures. The events to be represented were carried out in strong movement and with theatrical lighting .
The theatrum sacrum experienced the greatest increase in the merging of architecture , sculpture and painting to form a total work of art , for example with frescoed ceilings and high altars in churches that were newly built or rebuilt from that time; see e.g. E.g. Erfurt Cathedral .
literature
- Ursula Brossette, The staging of the sacred. The theatrical room and equipment program of southern German baroque churches in its liturgical and ceremonial context , Weimar 2002
- Ralf van Bühren Church building in the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Liturgical reforms and their consequences for spatial planning, liturgical disposition and image furnishing after the Council of Trent , in: Operation on the living object. Rome's liturgical reforms from Trent to Vatican II, ed. by Stefan Heid, Berlin 2014, pp. 93–119 - full text online
- Hans Tintelnot , Baroque theater and baroque art. The history of the development of festival and theater decoration in relation to baroque art , Berlin 1939