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Votive panels and popular piety in early modern Italy

Title
Votive panels and popular piety in early modern Italy / Fredrika H. Jacobs, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond.
Author
Jacobs, Fredrika Herman.
Publication
New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
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Description
xiii, 248 pages : illustrations (some color); 26 cm
Summary
"In the late fifteenth century, votive panel paintings, or tavolette votive, began to accumulate around reliquary shrines and miracle-working images throughout Italy. Although often dismissed as popular art of little aesthetic consequence, more than 1,500 panels from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries are extant, a testimony to their ubiquity and importance in religious practice. Humble in both their materiality and style, they represent donors in prayer and supplicants petitioning a saint at a dramatic moment of crisis. In this book, Fredrika H. Jacobs traces the origins and development of the use of votive panels in this period. She examines the form, context and functional value of votive panels, and considers how they created meaning for the person who dedicated them as well as how they accrued meaning in relationship to other images and objects within a sacred space activated by practices of cultic culture"--
Subject
  • Since 1400
  • Votive offerings > Italy
  • Panel painting, Italian > 15th century
  • Panel painting, Italian > 16th century
  • Christian art and symbolism > Italy > Modern period, 1500-
  • Christianity and culture > Italy > History > 16th century
  • Art and popular culture > Italy > History > 16th century
  • Art and popular culture
  • Christian art and symbolism > Modern period
  • Christianity and culture
  • Panel painting, Italian
  • Votive offerings
  • Italy
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-244) and index.
Contents
I. Dialogues of devotion: an introduction -- II. Tavolette votive: form, function, context -- III. Determining functional value: attestations of fact and faith -- IV. Narrative modes -- V. Signs of faith, signs of superstition.
Call Number
JQF 14-170
ISBN
  • 9781107023048 (hardback)
  • 1107023041 (hardback)
LCCN
2013019583
OCLC
828140292
Author
Jacobs, Fredrika Herman.
Title
Votive panels and popular piety in early modern Italy / Fredrika H. Jacobs, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond.
Publisher
New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-244) and index.
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Chronological Term
Since 1400
Research Call Number
JQF 14-170
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