Religious drama

Religious drama, wood, National museum of Denmark (Copenhagen, Denmark). Made with Memento Beta (now ReMake) from AutoDesk. The Catholic Church found it of great Importance to render the Bible and the legends alive and pertinent. They were not history but present reality. At the Easter Mass priests went to a symbolic Sepulchre and found it to be empty: Christ had risen from the dead. Other feasts were also dramatized (see the Ascension figure in room 126). In the late Middle Ages large-scale religious plays were enacted both inside and outside the church buildings. The Church also used dramatic effects in pictures and sculpture for the sake of impressing Churchgoers as profoundly as possible. This is especially true of the detailed descriptions of Christ’s sufferings from the Late Middle Ages. For more update, please follow @GeoffreyMarchal on Twitter