{"id":13962,"date":"2018-01-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/granda.com\/innovacion-nuevas-tecnicas-para-elaborar-esta-representacion-de-st-gudmund-jessheim-noruega\/"},"modified":"2022-10-06T08:58:09","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T08:58:09","slug":"innovation-new-techniques-to-elaborate-this-representation-of-st-gudmund-jessheim-norway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granda.com\/en\/innovacion-nuevas-tecnicas-para-elaborar-esta-representacion-de-st-gudmund-jessheim-noruega\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation: new techniques to elaborate this representation of St. Gudmund's (Jessheim, Norway)"},"content":{"rendered":"

GUDMUNDO THE GOOD, A SAINT OF THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY<\/p>\n

Gudmundur Arason was born in Iceland in 1161. At the age of 24 he was ordained a priest. His reputation as an upright and devout man led him to be elected bishop of\u00f3lar.<\/strong>He was one of the two dioceses that existed in Iceland in the Middle Ages. During his lifetime he fought against corruption and led a life of detachment from material goods and concern for the poor.<\/strong> Between 1214 and 1218 he lived in Norway, which is why his fame extends there and there are several churches dedicated to him today.<\/p>\n

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SCULPTURE FOR A NEW NORWEGIAN CHURCH<\/p>\n

We were commissioned by a newly built parish in Jessheim (Norway).<\/p>\n

\t\t\tLike St. Clare's Church in Kongsvinger, the Church of St. Clare in Kongsvinger, the St Gudmund<\/a>  was born because of the large number of faithful coming to St. Magnus, the only one in the area.<\/strong>and the need to minister to all of them. Once the division was approved, St Gudmund's began its pastoral activity in January 2017.<\/p>\n

\"St-Gudmund-kirke\"<\/p>\n

INNOVATION: TRADITIONAL APPLICATIONS ON NEW MATERIALS<\/p>\n

In making the initial design, we studied the figure of St. Gudmund and followed the parish's indications about its patron saint: to wear a chasuble and to carry the miter and crosier proper to a bishop<\/strong>. In addition, the Nordic factions have been respected <\/strong>that the saint must have had given his origin - whitish skin and hair tone, straight and vertical forehead, light eyes, narrow and straight nose, angular jaw and pointed chin, athletic constitution... - while at the same time trying to give the face the serenity that, according to tradition, characterized it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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In addition, the architecture of the building and the elements that the church already had at its disposal had to be taken into account: a tabernacle of red Granda marble<\/strong> the archbishopric purchased a year ago, and a Renaissance statue of the Virgin Mary<\/strong>The style was to be the same so as not to break the unity of the interior space and not to detract from the prominence of the Virgin.<\/p>\n

That is the reason why the image of St. Gudmund was chosen as a bishop and another possible project of a sculptural group in which St. Gudmund would be surrounded by poor children was not realized. Instead, the saint holds in his hands a scroll that says: \"Quamdiu fecistis uni de his fratribus meis minimis mihi fecistis\" (Matteus 25, 40) \"What you did to one of these my brothers, even to the least of them, you did to me.\"<\/p>\n\r\n\t\t

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