Blessed and beautiful : picturing the saints /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kiely, Robert
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New Haven : Yale University Press, 2010.
Subjects:	Painting, Italian > Themes, motives. Painting, Renaissance > Italy. Christian saints in art. Art and society > Italy.

Table of Contents:

Introduction. Choosing the "beautiful ones"
The standing of Mary : Opus Formosior
A saint for all seasons : taking liberties with John the Baptist
Recovering Mary Magdalene and the dignity of woman : Apostola Apostolorum
Manliness and saintliness : the cases of Mark, Sebastian, and Rocco
The pearls of Saint Lawrence : what Ruskin sees when he looks at a picture
Imagining Augustine imagining, or, A theologian's toothache
Sodoma's Saint Benedict : out in the cloister
Further considerations of the holy stigmata of Saint Francis : where was Brother Leo?
The saint who lost her head, or, Who's afraid of Catherine of Siena?
Saints fair and fearsome : Louis of Toulouse and Bernardino da Siena
Epilogue : pace e bene.