The forthcoming film Christ Contemplated explores 12 masterpiece paintings depicting Christ at the National Gallery in the heart of the UK capital.
Presented by Fr Marcus Holden and the art historian Teresa Lane, in the film the duo investigate how the greatest artists have depicted the Lord Jesus Christ. Together, they interrogate what the great masters of the paint brush such as Caravaggio have to say about the central figure portrayed: Christ.
“ I have long been fascinated by sacred art and have seen through experience how it helps people understand Christian teaching and theology,” says Fr Marcus, Episcopal Vicar for Evangelisation and Catechesis in the Archdiocese of Southwark, and also a parish priest at St Bede’s, Clapham Park, and Dean of Lambeth.
Teresa Lane is an Associate Lecturer at The Courtauld, a major public gallery and an internationally renowned centre for the teaching and research of art history, who specialises in Medieval art, with interests in the depiction of the divine and the interrelationships between image and text. Her research spans manuscripts, sculpture, wall and panel painting and goldsmiths’ work, with a focus on the role of images and objects in religious devotion. She is also a guest lecturer at the Victoria & Albert Museum.
