The Multi-Sensory Image from Antiquity to the Renaissance

ISBN-13: 9780367663162 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 192 str.

Heather Hunter-Crawley; Erica O'Brien

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This volume responds to calls in visual and material cultural studies to move beyond the visual and to explore the multi-sensory impact of the image, across a wide range of cultural and historical contexts.

As a collection, these chapters offer the student and scholar of art history and visual culture an array of exciting new ap

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List of Figures

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Preface

Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

Chapter 1 "Introduction: The Image and the Senses"
Heather Hunter-Crawley & Erica O'Brien

Chapter 2 "Seeing is (not) Believing: Visual and Non-Visual Interpretations of Aegean Bronze Age Frescoes"
Jo Day

Chapter 3 "Multi-sensory Encounters: The Aesthetic Impact of Roman Coloured Statues"
Amalie Skovmøller and Berit Hildebrandt

Chapter 4 "Painting as Sermon: The Role of the Visual in Catechism in Late Fourth-Century Christian Orations"
Despoina Lampada

Chapter 5 "Experiencing the Miracle: Animated Images and the Senses in the Burial Chapel of the Byzantine Saint"
Dimitra Kotoula

Chapter 6 "Engaging the Olfactory: Scent in the Arts, Cultures, and Museums of the Islamic World"
Claire Dobbin and Leslee Katrina Michelsen

Chapter 7 "The Vocal in the Visual: Auditory Issues and the Potential of the Voice in Late Medieval and Early Modern Visual Art"
Daniela Wagner

Chapter 8 "‘Pictures with Light and Motion’: The Language of the Senses in The Masque of Flowers"
Caterina Guardini

Afterword "The Multi-sensory Image Between Interdisciplinarity and Multi-media"
François Quiviger

Index

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Dr Heather Hunter-Crawley has held research and teaching posts at the University of Bristol and Swansea University. She is an independent researcher specialising in the religious art of Roman and late antiquity, and the author of numerous articles on ancient Christianity, Roman religion, and the senses.

Dr Erica O’Brien teaches at the University of Bristol. She has also taught at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David and has held a Frances A. Yates Short-term Research Fellowship at the Warburg Institute. She is interested in the depiction of sensory experience in late medieval devotional portraits. Her current research is on two manuscripts that belonged to Margaret of York, the Duchess of Burgundy from 1468 to 1477.