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Monumental sounds : art and listening before Dante

Title: Monumental sounds : art and listening before Dante / by Matthew G. Shoaf.
Author: Shoaf, Matthew G.
Publication: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]

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xiii, 302 pages : illustrations (some color); 25 cm.

Summary

"In Monumental Sounds, Matthew G. Shoaf examines interactions between sight and hearing in spectacular church decoration in Italy between 1260-1320. In this "age of vision," authorities\u0027 concerns about whether and how worshipers listened to sacred speech spurred Giotto and other artists to reconfigure sacred stories to activate listening and ultimately bypass phenomenal experience for attitudes of inner receptivity. New naturalistic styles served that work, prompting viewers to give voice to depicted speech and guiding them toward spiritually fruitful auditory discipline. This study reimagines narrative pictures as site-specific extensions of a cultural system that made listening a meaningful practice. Close reading of religious texts, poetry, and art historiography augments Shoaf\u0027s novel approach to pictorial naturalism and art\u0027s multisensorial dimensions"--

Series Statement

Brill\u0027s studies on art, art history, and intellectual history, 1878-9048 ; volume 55

Uniform Title

Brill\u0027s studies on art, art history, and intellectual history ; v. 55.

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN

9789004415003
9004415009
9789004460812 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2021016913

OCLC

on1237350183
1237350183

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Columbia University Libraries