Research Catalog

Title

Picturing death 1200-1600 / edited by Stephen Perkinson, Noa Turel.

Publication

• Leiden : Brill, [2021]
• ©2021

Supplementary Content

1850-9999

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Details

Additional Authors

• Perkinson, Stephen
• Turel, Noa

Description

xx, 454 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 25 cm.

Summary

"Picturing Death: 1200-1600 explores the visual culture of mortality over the course of four centuries that witnessed a remarkable flourishing of imagery focused on the themes of death, dying, and the afterlife. In doing so, this volume sheds light on issues that unite two periods--the Middle Ages and the Renaissance--that are often understood as diametrically opposed. The studies collected here cover a broad visual terrain, from tomb sculpture to painted altarpieces, from manuscripts to printed books, and from minute carved objects to large-scale architecture. Taken together, they present a picture of the ways that images have helped humans understand their own mortality, and have incorporated the deceased into the communities of the living"--

Series Statement

Brill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; volume 321. Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history, 1878-9048 ; volume 50

Uniform Title

• Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 321.
• Brill's studies in intellectual history. Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history ; v. 50.

Subject

• 1200-1599
• Death in art > 13th century
• Death in art > 14th century
• Death in art > 15th century
• Death in art > 16th century
• Death in art

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-444) and index.

Contents

Part 1. Housing the dead -- 1. Looking beyond the face : tomb effigies and the medieval commemoration of the dead / Robert Marcoux -- 2. Portraiture, projection, perfection : the multiple effigies of Enrico Scrovegni / Henrike Christiane Lange -- 3. Plorans ploravit in nocte : the birth of the figure of the pleurant in tomb sculpture / Xavier Dectot -- 4. Gendering prayer in trecento Florence : tomb paintings in Santa Croce and San Remigio / Judith Steinhoff -- 5. Two-story charnel-house chapels and the space of death in the medieval city / Katherine M. Boivin -- Part 2. Mortal anxieties and living paradoxes -- 6. The living dead and the joy of the crucifixion / Brigit G. Ferguson -- 7. The speaking tomb : ventriloquizing the voices of the dead / Jessica Barker -- 8. Feeding worms : the theological paradox of the decaying body and its depictions in the context of prayer and devotion / Johanna Scheel -- 9. Not quite dead : imaging the miracle of infant resuscitation / Fredrika H. Jacobs -- Part 3. The macabre, instrumentalized -- 10. Dissecting for the king : Guido da Vigevano and the anatomy of death / Peter Bovenmyer -- 11. Covert apotheoses : Archbishop Henry Chichele's tomb and the vocational logic of early transis / Noa Turel -- 12. Into print : early illustrated books and the reframing of the danse macabre / Maja Dujakovic -- 13. Death commodified : macabre imagery on luxury objects, c. 1500 / Stephen Perkinson -- Part 4. Departure and persistence -- 14. Coemeterium schola : the emblematic imagery of death in Jan David's Veridicus Christianus / Walter S. Melion -- 15. A protestant reconceptualization of images of death and the afterlife in Stephen Bateman's A Christall Glasse / Mary V. Silcox -- 16. Shifting role models within the Society of Jesus : the abandonment of grisly martyrdom images c. 1600 / Alison C. Fleming.

Call Number

JQE 22-798

ISBN

• 9789004430020
• 9004430024
• 9004441115
• 9789004441118

LCCN

• 2021425736
• 9789004430020

OCLC

1227473491

Title

Picturing death 1200-1600 / edited by Stephen Perkinson, Noa Turel.

Publisher

Leiden : Brill, [2021]

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Brill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; volume 321. Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history, 1878-9048 ; volume 50

Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 321.

Brill's studies in intellectual history. Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history ; v. 50.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-444) and index.

Biography

Stephen Perkinson, Ph. D. (1998, Northwestern University), is Professor of Art History and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Bowdoin College. He is the author of The Likeness of the King (Chicago, 2009) and The Ivory Mirror (Yale, 2017). Noa Turel, Ph. D. (2012, University of California, Santa Barbara), is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She is the author of Living Pictures: Jan van Eyck and Painting's First Century (Yale, 2020).

Connect to:

1850-9999

Chronological Term

1200-1599

Added Author

Perkinson, Stephen, editor.

Turel, Noa, editor.

Other Form:

e-book version 9789004441118

Other Standard Identifier

10.1163/9789004441118 doi

9789004430020

Research Call Number

JQE 22-798