A touching compassion: Dürer’s haptic theology
In one of the final scenes of his 1511 woodcut sequence, The Small Passion, Albrecht Dürer depicts the newly risen Christ extending his forefinger towards the head of Mary Magdalen. As a moment of touching, the Noli me tangere belongs to a category of representations that attests to the indexical na...
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The Open University
2015-02-01
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| Series: | The Open Arts Journal |
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| Online Access: | https://openartsjournal.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/oaj_issue4_brisman.pdf |