Encyclopedia of Religion

IMAGES AND THE BODY

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RELIGION, SECOND EDITION

his martyred followers (n). At times this imagery was

especially graphic in order to jolt viewers to attention and

to elicit from them an empathic response accompanied

by remorse and self-incrimination. The sacrifice and pain

undertaken by Christ and the saints were the means of

human salvation and were to be regarded with solemn

gratitude.

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(n) Giovanni Francesco Guercino, Saint Peter Martyr, oil on

canvas, seventeenth century. Holding the symbolic palm of

martyrdom and calmly posing with the instrument of his death

lodged in his head, the saint receives the reassurance of divine

acceptance from two angels. [©Scala/Art Resource, N.Y.]

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