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Safekeeping the Faith

By Andrea Zorrilla

Published: May 4, 2008
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Courtesy the J. Paul Getty Museum. Los Angeles
An illumination from the "Vita Christi manuscript" (c. 1190-1200), recently acquired by the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles


Courtesy the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
A parchment page illustrated with tempera colors, gold leaf, and ink from Master of Sir John Fastolf's "Book of Hours" (c. 1430-40)

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LOS ANGELES—This month, the Getty Center, in Los Angeles, hosts “Imagining Christ,” May 6 through July 27. The exhibition spotlights depictions of Jesus in 24 illuminated manuscripts from the 11th to 16th centuries—including, most notably, the Vita Christi, which the museum acquired in February 2008 and has yet to unveil in public. The work’s more than 100 illuminations are said to be among the finest English Romanesque examples extant. Accompanying the show is the series “Three Wise Films,” a trio of movies with Christlike protagonists, including Monty Python’s parodic Life of Brian and the Canadian director Denys Arcand’s more sober Jesus of Montreal, plus a panel discussion led by Jack Miles, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of God: A Biography.

"Safekeeping the Faith" originally appeared in the May 2008 issue of Art+Auction. For a complete list of articles from this issue available on ARTINFO, see Art+Auction's May 2008 Table of Contents.

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