Gendered Perceptions of Florentine Last Supper Frescoes, C. 1350-1490

ISBN-13: 9780367433239 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 256 str.

Diana Hiller

Opis

This study examines the effect of gender on the contextualized perceptions of the male and female religious who viewed the Florentine Last Supper images. Using archival, literary and cultural sources, and by examining a wide range of contexts, Diana Hiller argues that the religious viewers’ perceptions of the refectory frescoes were gendered.

Recenzje

'... this well-written and well-illustrated volume provides many insights into the images analyzed here. Hiller has clearly scrutinized the images in question and offers much rich material, assembled both from her archival work and from the extensive published literature on which she draws. Her suggestive findings shed light on the quotidian lives of male and female religious, and her carefully nuanced visual analyses similarly illuminate the images that the residents would have seen daily.' Studies in Iconography

Spis treści

Contents: Prefatory note; Introduction; Genesis and development of the Florentine Last Supper frescoes; Perception ‘by the whole light of the mind’ and perception ‘by the eyes of the watchful heart’; The apostles as a focus for gendered perceptions; The perceptual environment of the male refectories; The perceptual environment of the female refectories; Conclusion; Select bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Diana Hiller is an independent scholar affiliated with the University of Melbourne, Australia.