Practice question · True or false
The Golden Legend was compiled without much critical scepticism about the legends it collected.
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- Ask what Voragine was doing and for whom.
- He collected the traditions as they stood, which is why painters could use them directly.
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True
Why
True, and that is exactly why it matters for art history. Painters used Voragine, not modern critical scholarship, so a painting follows his version even where a historian would not, which makes the book the right place to look when an attribute refers to a story the Bible does not contain.
Practise Judeo-Christian Sources I: Scripture and Typology
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