May 26, 2005
LECTURE AT PARTNERSHIP WITH THE FRIENDS OF THE PAMPLONA CATHEDRAL
The Fine Arts and the Eucharist in Navarre. Iconography and Music, from the Age average to the present day.
D. Ricardo Fernández Gracia
The event was organized by the cathedral chapter and the association of Friends of the Cathedral of Pamplona and was attended by partnership of the Music Chapel and the Chair of Heritage and Navarrese Art.
After a few words of presentation of the topic by Prof. Fernández Gracia, in which he stopped to point out the moments chosen by the artists to capture the Eucharistic mystery, as well as the high points of the cult of the Eucharist, it was passed to the explanation and evaluation of significant pieces. In the lecture-concert, some artistic pieces related to the Eucharist were presented by historical stages, accompanied by music from each of those periods.
To gloss the Age average were presented and explained pieces as important as the enamel pyx of Fitero, the monstrance of Sangüesa or the miniature of the statutes of the confraternity of the Sacramento de Tudela, with the complement of Gregorian music and the Sanctus of an anonymous mass of the cathedral file of Pamplona.
The Renaissance had images of processional monstrances -Aibar, Pamplona-, as well as representations of the Holy Supper in which the interest is not centered on the betrayal of Judas, but on the institution of the sacrament itself. During the centuries of the Baroque, the feast of Corpus Christi and the cult of the Sacrament of the Altar became a feast for the senses, both in music and in the fine arts, as could be seen in canvases, monstrances, altarpiece displays, reports of feasts and compositions by Urbán de Vargas or Miguel de Irizar.
With the hearing of a Eucharistic motet by Eslava and the verse of the Eucharistic Hymn for 7 voices by Busca de Sagastizábal and the visualization of significant works such as the Corpus Christi procession by the painter Sanz Benito and the projects of tabernacles and neo-Gothic displays by workshops from Pamplona, this activity concluded with the aim of giving a complementary and at the same time unitary vision of the arts, in its musical, sculptural, pictorial and sumptuary arts, always with the same purpose, in this case, the exaltation of the Eucharistic mystery.