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Vision, devotion, and self-representation in late medieval art
- Title
- Vision, devotion, and self-representation in late medieval art / Alexa Sand.
- Author
- Sand, Alexa Kristen
- Publication
- New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
- Supplementary Content
- Cover image
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JQF 14-651 | Schwarzman Building - Art & Architecture Room 300 |
Details
- Description
- xii, 408 pages : illustrations; 27 cm
- Summary
- "This book focuses on one of the most attractive yet poorly understood features of late-medieval manuscript illumination: the portrait of the book owner at prayer within the pages of her own prayer-book"--
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-397) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: self-reflection, devotion, and vision in the image of the book owner at prayer -- Saving face: the Veronica and the Visio Dei -- From Memoria to Visio: revising the donor -- Framing vision: the image of the book owner and the reflexive mode of seeing -- Domesticating devotion: body, space, and self -- Conclusion: Power and the portrait: negotiating gender.
- Call Number
- JQF 14-651
- ISBN
- 9781107032224 (hardback)
- 1107032229 (hardback)
- LCCN
- 2013027299
- OCLC
- 854512624
- Author
- Sand, Alexa Kristen, author.
- Title
- Vision, devotion, and self-representation in late medieval art / Alexa Sand.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-397) and index.
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- Research Call Number
- JQF 14-651