Picturing death 1200-1600 /
"Picturing Death: 1200-1600 explores the visual culture of mortality over the course of four centuries that witnessed a remarkable flourishing of imagery focused on the themes of death, dying, and the afterlife. In doing so, this volume sheds light on issues that unite two periods--the Middle A...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden :
Brill,
[2021]
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| Series: | Brill's studies in intellectual history ;
v. 321. Brill's studies in intellectual history. Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history ; v. 50. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1. Housing the dead
- 1. Looking beyond the face : tomb effigies and the medieval commemoration of the dead / Robert Marcoux
- 2. Portraiture, projection, perfection : the multiple effigies of Enrico Scrovegni / Henrike Christiane Lange
- 3. Plorans ploravit in nocte : the birth of the figure of the pleurant in tomb sculpture / Xavier Dectot
- 4. Gendering prayer in trecento Florence : tomb paintings in Santa Croce and San Remigio / Judith Steinhoff
- 5. Two-story charnel-house chapels and the space of death in the medieval city / Katherine M. Boivin
- Part 2. Mortal anxieties and living paradoxes
- 6. The living dead and the joy of the crucifixion / Brigit G. Ferguson
- 7. The speaking tomb : ventriloquizing the voices of the dead / Jessica Barker
- 8. Feeding worms : the theological paradox of the decaying body and its depictions in the context of prayer and devotion / Johanna Scheel
- 9. Not quite dead : imaging the miracle of infant resuscitation / Fredrika H. Jacobs
- Part 3. The macabre, instrumentalized
- 10. Dissecting for the king : Guido da Vigevano and the anatomy of death / Peter Bovenmyer
- 11. Covert apotheoses : Archbishop Henry Chichele's tomb and the vocational logic of early transis / Noa Turel
- 12. Into print : early illustrated books and the reframing of the danse macabre / Maja Dujakovic
- 13. Death commodified : macabre imagery on luxury objects, c. 1500 / Stephen Perkinson
- Part 4. Departure and persistence
- 14. Coemeterium schola : the emblematic imagery of death in Jan David's Veridicus Christianus / Walter S. Melion
- 15. A protestant reconceptualization of images of death and the afterlife in Stephen Bateman's A Christall Glasse / Mary V. Silcox
- 16. Shifting role models within the Society of Jesus : the abandonment of grisly martyrdom images c. 1600 / Alison C. Fleming.