Picturing death 1200-1600

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Imprint:

Leiden : Brill, [2021] and ©2021

Subject:

Death in art - 13th century
Death in art - 14th century
Death in art - 15th century
Death in art - 16th century

Contributor:

Perkinson, Stephen, editor
Turel, Noa, editor

ISBN:

9789004430020 and 9004430024

Series:

Brill's studies in intellectual history
Brill's studies in intellectual history

Description:

xx, 454 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm

Bibliographic Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-444) and index

Contents:

Housing the dead -- Looking beyond the face : tomb effigies and the medieval commemoration of the dead / Robert Marcoux -- Portraiture, projection, perfection : the multiple effigies of Enrico Scrovegni / Henrike Christiane Lange -- Plorans ploravit in nocte : the birth of the figure of the pleurant in tomb sculpture / Xavier Dectot -- Gendering prayer in trecento Florence : tomb paintings in Santa Croce and San Remigio / Judith Steinhoff -- Two-story charnel-house chapels and the space of death in the medieval city / Katherine M. Boivin -- Mortal anxieties and living paradoxes -- The living dead and the joy of the crucifixion / Brigit G. Ferguson -- The speaking tomb : ventriloquizing the voices of the dead / Jessica Barker -- Feeding worms : the theological paradox of the decaying body and its depictions in the context of prayer and devotion / Johanna Scheel -- Not quite dead : imaging the miracle of infant resuscitation / Fredrika H. Jacobs -- The macabre, instrumentalized -- Dissecting for the king : Guido da Vigevano and the anatomy of death / Peter Bovenmyer -- Covert apotheoses : Archbishop Henry Chichele's tomb and the vocational logic of early transis / Noa Turel -- Into print : early illustrated books and the reframing of the danse macabre / Maja Dujakovic -- Death commodified : macabre imagery on luxury objects, c. 1500 / Stephen Perkinson -- Departure and persistence -- Coemeterium schola : the emblematic imagery of death in Jan David's Veridicus Christianus / Walter S. Melion -- A protestant reconceptualization of images of death and the afterlife in Stephen Bateman's A Christall Glasse / Mary V. Silcox -- Shifting role models within the Society of Jesus : the abandonment of grisly martyrdom images c. 1600 / Alison C. Fleming

Summary:

"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 Ages and the Renaissance--that are often understood as diametrically opposed. The studies collected here cover a broad visual terrain, from tomb sculpture to painted altarpieces, from manuscripts to printed books, and from minute carved objects to large-scale architecture. Taken together, they present a picture of the ways that images have helped humans understand their own mortality, and have incorporated the deceased into the communities of the living"-- Back cover

Collection:

BGC Monograph Stacks

Call Number:

N8217.D5 P53 2021

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