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A printed icon in early modern Italy : Forlì's Madonna of the fire
- Title
- A printed icon in early modern Italy : Forlì's Madonna of the fire / Lisa Pon.
- Author
- Pon, Lisa
- Publication
- New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
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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 | MDBF 15-2475 | Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308 |
Details
- Description
- xiv, 288 pages : illustrations; 26 cm
- Summary
- "In 1428, a devastating fire destroyed a schoolhouse in the northern Italian city of Forlì, leaving only a woodcut of the Madonna and Child that had been tacked to the classroom wall. The people of Forlì carried that print - now known as the Madonna of the Fire - into their cathedral, where two centuries later a new chapel was built to enshrine it. In this book, Lisa Pon considers a cascade of moments in the Madonna of the Fire's cultural biography: when ink was impressed onto paper at a now-unknown date; when that sheet was recognized by Forlì's people as miraculous; when it was enshrined in various tabernacles and chapels in the cathedral; when it or one of its copies was - and still is - carried in procession. In doing so, Pon offers an experiment in art historical inquiry that spans more than three centuries of making, remaking, and renewal"--
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-282) and index.
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: Part I. Thing: 1. Iconography: Madonna and child; 2. Imprint: paper, print, and matrix; Part II. Emplacement: 3. Miracle: the fire of February 4, 1428; 4. Domestic display: Lombardino da Ripetrosa's schoolhouse; 5. Ecclesiastical enshrinement: the cathedral of Forlì; Part III. Mobilities: 6. Moving in the city: the translation of 1636; 7. Mobile in print: the procession on paper; 8. Multiplied: the Madonna of the Fire in Forlì and beyond.
- Call Number
- MDBF 15-2475
- ISBN
- 9781107098510
- 1107098513
- LCCN
- 2014042756
- OCLC
- 907008010
- Author
- Pon, Lisa, author.
- Title
- A printed icon in early modern Italy : Forlì's Madonna of the fire / Lisa Pon.
- Publisher
- New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-282) and index.
- Research Call Number
- MDBF 15-2475