著者

国清 景子 Keiko Kunikiyo

雑誌

人文論究 (ISSN:02866773)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.64/65, no.4/1, pp.223-242, 2015-05-20

著者

国清 景子

出版者

美学会

雑誌

美学 (ISSN:05200962)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.70, no.2, pp.124, 2019 (Released:2021-05-08)

著者

国清 景子

出版者

美学会

雑誌

美学 (ISSN:05200962)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.66, no.2, pp.37-48, 2015-12-31 (Released:2017-05-22)

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The presence of specific themes in Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-69)'s works has been pointed out by Held and other scholars. These themes serve as essential concepts to unite his works regardless of subject matter of a given work. Blindness is considered to be one of such themes. Rembrandt's works illustrating the Apocryphal Book of Tobit are considered to include the blindness theme. However, though Tobit, the main character of the Book of Tobit, is a blind man, the 17th-century-people considered the book was enlightening piety, mutual assistance and industry. Tobit's blindness merely serves as a basic context for the miraculous healing of Tobit's eyes, and is not a dominant theme. Instead what is remarkable is that Rembrandt repeatedly depicted the healing as a cataract operation at that time. This essay explores the background of the painter's repeated use of the operation motif to depict the miraculous healing of Tobit's eyes. To this end, the essay looks into other Rembrandt's works illustrating a medical operation and compares them with the said works. And finally it reveals that Rembrandt's works depicting the healing of Tobit's eyes are allegorical representation that while being subsumed into Sight, Touch is the sense that supports Sight.

著者

国清 景子

出版者

美学会

雑誌

美学 (ISSN:05200962)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.65, no.2, pp.113, 2014-12-31 (Released:2017-05-22)