A lecture in the series Time for Art!
Moderator: Monika Miżołębska

In the Middle Ages, patron saints provided protection for monasteries, towns and guilds, and the relics associated with them were subject to both veneration and plunder. In the modern era, their images were accompanied by portraits of powerful and mighty founders. In the twentieth century, hagiographic motifs began to take on a non-obvious symbolic meaning. How has the iconography of the most important Christian saints changed over the centuries?