2007
31 Min.
July 2012
Hagen
Gladius Dei (1902) is a novella by Thomas Mann.
It follows the story of a radically religious and ascetic youth, Hieronymus, as he attempts to eradicate a painting of a Madonna that he finds especially sacrilegious. The story takes place in Munich in the early 1900s and raises the question of art’s relationship to religion, a theme that Mann develops in later works as well. The work reaches its climax as Hieronymus experiences a vision of the sword of God (Latin: Gladius Dei) as it destroys the art found everywhere in Munich at this time.
by Merrick Doll
http://modernism.research.yale.edu/wiki/index.php/Gladius_Dei
IMAGE © JEFF GABEL, COURTESY THE ARTIST AND SPENCER BROWNSTONE GALLERY
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