Signata (Nov 2023)
La spiritualité comme motif de complexification identitaire
Abstract
As part of the multidisciplinary Augmented Artworks Analysis (AAA) project, in partnership with the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon, Lille Palace of Fine Arts and the National Museum of History and Art of Luxembourg, a discussion on the renewal of interpretation assistance practices in the museum space is undertaken with the aim of producing a device capable of including a wide category of audiences with varied cognitive styles. For the three project work teams, from different geographical and theoretical backgrounds, the challenge is to find middle ways of epistemic and methodological convergence in order to provide partner museums with a rich and relevant analysis of works of art in their complementary relationship to cultural practices in current museums. To do this, the project works on two distinct corpuses comprising a restricted central corpus, subjected to an “augmented” analysis by plural analytical perspectives - in particular those of the History of Art and Visual Semiotics—and a corpus framework aiming to constitute, in the long term, a Complementary Museum of the main works or an aid to the interpretation by the immediate visualization of genealogies or networks of indices selected for their explanatory and demonstrative relevance. By comparing three paintings from these corpuses— a) The Temptation of Sainte-Madeleine, Jacob Jordaens, around 1620, (Lille) ; b) Saint Mary Magdalene in ecstasy, Peter Paul Rubens, 1619-1620, (Lille) ; c) Mary Magdalene in meditation, Massimo Stanzione, around 1630, (Luxembourg)—this article therefore seeks to show a form of dialogue between the semiotic perspective and the History of Art. We will focus our analysis on the qualification of the link between spiritual journeys and identity life forms of the ciniographic figure Mary Magdalene. Through a comparative approach of different sequences—of temptation, ecstasy and meditation—the present study will constitute a critical field of reflection as well as a platform for experimentation with the longer-term objectives of the AAA project.
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