'Stepping into the world' Martin Heidegger's Remarks on the 'Sistine Madonna'

What is it about?

This essay examines Martin Heidegger’s philosophical reading of Raphael’s painting Sistine Madonna. Three explanatory lines of Heidegger’s thought are examined: the Sistine Madonna in the historical transformation of art, the phenomenological analysis of the image and, finally, the reading of the painting in the light of the close connection between image and Eucharist. Each of these lines has been followed in this essay, the three progressing together toward a hermeneutical account of the image, which account would reveal the profound theological impact of Heidegger’s philosophical approach to Raphael’s painting.

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