Les anamorphoses de Bossuet mises en perspective Les précédents d’un motif et son évolution

Bossuet’s anamorphosis are indebted to a long tradition which both contrasts and associates God’s unity and the multiplicity of creatures. By incorporating anamorphosis into a set of images suggesting the ontological transition from time to eternity, its centre, Bossuet focuses the mind’s eye on invisible. Anamorphosis reduces the Augustinian gap between the shining of truth, and the darkness of sin. This “perspective curieuse” invites the reader to meditate the divine element hidden in this world, as the reflect of another one.