Mary of Mercy in Medieval and Renaissance Italian Art: Devotional Image and Civic Emblem

ISBN-13: 9780367331153 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 236 str.

Katherine T. Brown

Opis

This study explores the iconographic origins of the Madonna della Misericordia as a devotional image by identifying key attributes; to consider its overlapping function as a secular symbol used by lay confraternities; and to discuss its diaspora throughout the Italian peninsula, Western Europe, and Russia and Ukraine.

O autorze

Katherine T. Brown is Associate Professor of Art History and Museum Studies at Walsh University in North Canton, Ohio.