Saints, Miracles, and Social Problems in Italian Renaissance Art

ISBN-13: 9781009300834 / Twarda / 2023 / 350 str.

Diana Bullen (University of Essex) Presciutti

Opis

Reveals how images of saints' miracles shaped perceptions of social problems related to gender, sexuality, and honor in Renaissance Italy.

Recenzje

'One of the most engaging and enlightening books about the visual culture of the Renaissance that I've read in a long time. It is learned, readable and innovative. From start to finish the explication of the images is virtuosic.' Mary Laven, Chair of the Faculty of History, Professor of Early Modern History, University of Cambridge

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. The Vita icon reimagined: new (and old) saints, new (and old) miracles; 3. Storytelling with saints: pictorial narrative and viewing experience; 4. Girls in trouble: gendering possession and exorcism; 5. Assault, amputation, absolution: visualizing the power of confession; 6. Thinking with Julian: marital violence and elite masculinity; 7. Bernardino the Peacemaker: visual hagiography and factional violence; 8. Cannibal mothers: picturing madness and maternal infanticide; 9. Making innocence visible (and audible) in the Basilico del Santo.