O roli wzroku i obrazu w twórczości medytacyjnej Marcina Hińczy
Alicja Bielak
Meluzyna: dawna literatura i kultura April 23, 2019 DOI: 10.18276/me.2017.1-04 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Historical analysis Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Topics | Meditation |
| Keywords | Affect theory Iconomystica Emblemata sacra Emblematics Marcin hińcza |
| Key points | Argues that Marcin Hińcza's emblem books used emotionally persuasive icons, based on the concept of affectus, as a didactic technique to enable readers' moral recollection during meditation. |
Abstract
Marcin Hińcza (1592–1668) was a Jesuit priest and writer, author of five devotional books. He was interested in visual arts and their utility in enlisting the believers during the Counter-Reformation combat with the protestants. The first part of the article presents emblem books of Hińcza (Plęsy Anjołów and Chwała z Krzyża) as an example of the Jesuit literary current of emblemata sacra i.e. emblem books used to meditate the life of Christ (exponents of the current: Jan David, Jerónimo Nadal, Antoine Sucquet). The literary current based on the symbolic theology (theologia symbolica, iconomystica) which – as Jacob Masen had described it – implied that symbolic arts can be used as a support in decrypting the meaning of God’s creation. The second part of the article analyses the persuasive functions of emblematic icons in meditative works of Hińcza in the context of Kwintylian’s concept of affectus (gr. pathos). The emotive influence on the spectator of emblematic icons was an element of the Hińcza’s didactic technique whose aim was to enable his readers the moral recollection during meditative exercises.
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