Les ancêtres du Christ. Chrétiens et Juifs dans la Chapelle Sixtine

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关键词: ancestors;    Sistine Chapel;    Michelangelo;    kinship;   

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【 摘 要 】

Among thousands of characters depicted in the Sistine Chapel, those of the ancestors of Christ, seem to have no relationship with the heroic context of the whole painting. One can view intimate scenes of family life, with women, children, old men. Many of them have their arms and legs crossed, as if prevented to move. Some of them have stereotyped Semitic features which recall anti-hebraic depictions of that time. As far as anthropology of kinship is concerned, the Incarnation creates a rupture: it cancels the value given to the transmission by the blood in father-son relationships. It is not by chance that, in the Gospel by Matthew, the list of the ancestors of Christ is situated at the articulation between the epochs of the Old Testament and the New. This article studies the relationships between the strangeness of the ancestors of Christ depicted in the margins of the Sistine Chapel, and the question of kinship. Only by questioning this genealogical paradox, which include the Jews in Christian History and exclude them at the same time, can one understand this strangeness as a production of alterity.

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