Studien über den Zusammenhang des geistlichen Theaters mit der bildenden Kunst im ausgehenden Mittelalter

Rapp rejects Mâle’s thesis that late medieval painters based their depictions of Christ’s life and death on contemporary plays and attributes the relationship between the two media to their shared devotional goals. Indeed, he treats plays and paintings as functionally equivalent art forms, interpreting all medieval religious plays as a sequence of tableaux vivants.