Vision Devotion And Self Representation In Late Medieval Art

Author : Alexa Sand
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107032224

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Vision, Devotion, and Self-Representation in Late Medieval Art by Alexa Sand Pdf

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. Beguiling because they appear to offer a direct view into the lives of medieval individuals - especially women - these are in fact religiously loaded images. They concern themselves with the relationship between visible images, visionary experience, and God's omnipresent vision, and thus strike at the very core of medieval Christian concerns about salvation and the efficacy of prayer.

Author : Alexa Kristen Sand
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1107727847

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Vision, Devotion, and Self-representation in Late Medieval Art by Alexa Kristen Sand Pdf

Author : Alexa Sand
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107729377

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Vision, Devotion, and Self-Representation in Late Medieval Art by Alexa Sand Pdf

This book investigates the 'owner portrait' in the context of late medieval devotional books primarily from France and England. These mirror-like pictures of praying book owners respond to and help develop a growing concern with visibility and self-scrutiny that characterized the religious life of the laity after the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215. The image of the praying book owner translated pre-existing representational strategies concerned with the authority and spiritual efficacy of pictures and books, such as the Holy Face and the donor image, into a more intimate and reflexive mode of address in Psalters and Books of Hours created for lay users. Alexa Sand demonstrates how this transformation had profound implications for devotional practices and for the performance of gender and class identity in the striving, aristocratic world of late medieval France and England.

Author : Jeffrey F. Hamburger
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1998-04-12
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015043772766

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The Visual and the Visionary by Jeffrey F. Hamburger Pdf

A bew interpretation of the role of the visual arts in the spiritual lives of women in late medieval monastic communities. The Visual and the Visionary adds a new dimension to the study of female spirituality, with its nuanced account of the changing roles of images in medieval monasticism from the twelfth century to the Reformation. In nine essays embracing the histories of art, religion, and literature, Jeffrey Hamburger explores the interrelationships between the visual arts and female spirituality in the context of the cura monialium, the pastoral care of nuns. Used as instruments of instruction and inspiration, images occupied a central place in debates over devotional practice, monastic reform, and mystical expression. Far from supplementing a history of art from which they have been excluded, the images made by and for women shaped that history decisively by defining novel modes of religious expression, above all, the relationship between sight and subjectivity. With this book, the study of female piety and artistic patronage becomes an integral part of the general history of medieval art and spirituality.

Author : Gail Feigenbaum
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606067161

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Getty Research Journal, No. 13 by Gail Feigenbaum Pdf

The Getty Research Journal features the work of art historians, museum curators, and conservators around the world as part of Getty’s mission to promote the presentation, conservation, and interpretation of the world’s artistic legacy. Articles present original scholarship related to Getty collections, initiatives, and broad research interests. This issue features essays on a Parthian stag rhyton and new epigraphic and technical discoveries; gendered devotion and owner portraits in illuminated manuscripts from northern France around 1300; a technical analysis of heraldic devices in a missal from Renaissance Bologna; a new social and collective practice of drawing among French architect pensionnaires of the 1820s and 1830s at Pompeii; artist Malvina Hoffman’s representations of race during her travels to Southeastern Europe as part of her work with the American Yugo-Slav Relief; Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta’s painting Reverie—The Letter and the small-world sensation as a methodology for global art history; arguments that disprove the attribution of the J. Paul Getty Museum’s sculpture Head with Horns to artist Paul Gauguin; Head with Horns and Gauguin’s creative appropriation of objects; and the unpublished first draft of critic Clement Greenberg’s essay "Towards a Newer Laocoon."

Author : Jessica Brantley
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780226071343

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Reading in the Wilderness by Jessica Brantley Pdf

Just as twenty-first-century technologies like blogs and wikis have transformed the once private act of reading into a public enterprise, devotional reading experiences in the Middle Ages were dependent upon an oscillation between the solitary and the communal. In Reading in the Wilderness, Jessica Brantley uses tools from both literary criticism and art history to illuminate Additional MS 37049, an illustrated Carthusian miscellany housed in the British Library. This revealing artifact, Brantley argues, closes the gap between group spectatorship and private study in late medieval England. Drawing on the work of W. J. T. Mitchell, Michael Camille, and others working at the image-text crossroads, Reading in the Wilderness addresses the manuscript’s texts and illustrations to examine connections between reading and performance within the solitary monk’s cell and also outside. Brantley reimagines the medieval codex as a site where the meanings of images and words are performed, both publicly and privately, in the act of reading.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004380127

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Christ, Mary, and the Saints by Anonim Pdf

Christ, Mary, and the Saints: Reading Religious Subjects in Medieval and Renaissance Spain offers an innovative, theoretically nuanced contribution to the study of devotional subjects in medieval and Golden Age Iberian art and literature.

Author : Richard Marks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art, Medieval
ISBN : 0750914661

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Image and Devotion in Late Medieval England by Richard Marks Pdf

This neglected but hugely important aspect of the visual culture of medieval England will appeal to anyone interested in the Middle Ages.

Author : Jeffrey F. Hamburger,Anne-Marie Bouché
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780691124766

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The Mind's Eye by Jeffrey F. Hamburger,Anne-Marie Bouché Pdf

The Mind's Eye focuses on the relationships among art, theology, exegesis, and literature--issues long central to the study of medieval art, yet ripe for reconsideration. Essays by leading scholars from many fields examine the illustration of theological commentaries, the use of images to expound or disseminate doctrine, the role of images within theological discourse, the development of doctrine in response to images, and the place of vision and the visual in theological thought. At issue are the ways in which theologians responded to the images that we call art and in which images entered into dialogue with theological discourse. In what ways could medieval art be construed as argumentative in structure as well as in function? Are any of the modes of representation in medieval art analogous to those found in texts? In what ways did images function as vehicles, not merely vessels, of meaning and signification? To what extent can exegesis and other genres of theological discourse shed light on the form, as well as the content and function, of medieval images? These are only some of the challenging questions posed by this unprecedented and interdisciplinary collection, which provides a historical framework within which to reconsider the relationship between seeing and thinking, perception and the imagination in the Middle Ages.

Author : Joanne W. Anderson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781501334702

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Moving with the Magdalen by Joanne W. Anderson Pdf

Moving with the Magdalen is the first art-historical book dedicated to the cult of Mary Magdalen in the late medieval Alps. Its seven case study chapters focus on the artworks commissioned for key churches that belonged to both parish and pilgrimage networks in order to explore the role of artistic workshops, commissioning patrons and diverse devotees in the development and transfer of the saint's iconography across the mountain range. Together they underscore how the Magdalen's cult and contingent imagery interacted with the environmental conditions and landscape of the Alps along late medieval routes.

Author : Herbert L. Kessler
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781442600744

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Experiencing Medieval Art by Herbert L. Kessler Pdf

Across the nine thematic chapters of Experiencing Medieval Art, renowned art historian Herbert L. Kessler considers functional objects as well as paintings and sculptures; the circumstances, processes, and materials of production; the conflictual relationship between art objects and notions of an ineffable deity; the context surrounding medieval art; and questions of apprehension, aesthetics, and modern presentation. He also introduces the exciting discoveries and revelations that have revolutionized contemporary understanding of medieval art and identifies the vexing challenges that still remain. With 16 color plates and 81 images in all—including the stained glass of Chartres Cathedral, the mosaics of San Marco, and the Utrecht Psalter, as well as newly discovered works such as the frescoes in Rome’s aula gotica and a twelfth-century aquamanile in Hildesheim—Experiencing Medieval Art makes the complex history of medieval art accessible for students of art history and scholars of medieval history, theology, and literature.

Author : David Carrillo-Rangel,Delfi I. Nieto-Isabel,Pablo Acosta-García
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030260293

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Touching, Devotional Practices, and Visionary Experience in the Late Middle Ages by David Carrillo-Rangel,Delfi I. Nieto-Isabel,Pablo Acosta-García Pdf

This book addresses the history of the senses in relation to affective piety and its role in devotional practices in the late Middle Ages, focusing on the sense of touch. It argues that only by deeply analysing this specific context of perception can the full significance of sensory religious experience in the Late Middle Ages be understood. Considering the centrality of the body to medieval society and Christianity, this collection explores a range of devotional practices, mainly relating to the Passion of Christ, and features manuscripts, works of devotional literature, art, woodcuts and judicial records. It brings together a multidisciplinary group of scholars to offer a variety of methodological approaches, in order to understand how touch was encoded, evoked and purposefully used. The book further considers how touch was related to the medieval theory of perception, examining its relation to the inner and outer senses through the eyes of visionaries, mystics, theologians and confessors, not only as praxis but from different theoretical points of view. While considered the most basic of spiritual experience, the chapters in this book highlight the all-pervasive presence of touch and the significance of ‘affective piety’ to Late Medieval Christians. Chapter 3: Drama, Performance and Touch in the Medieval Convent and Beyond is Open Access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com

Author : Gwenfair Walters Adams
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004156067

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Visions in Late Medieval England by Gwenfair Walters Adams Pdf

This volume is the first to explore the breadth of vision types in late medieval English lay spirituality. Analyzing 1000+ accounts, it proposes that visions buttressed five core dynamics (relating to purgatory, saints, demons, sacramental faith, and the Church's authority).

Author : H. W. van Os,Eugène Honée,Rijksmuseum (Països Baixos)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Art, Gothic
ISBN : UCSC:32106011883011

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The Art of Devotion in the Late Middle Ages in Europe, 1300-1500 by H. W. van Os,Eugène Honée,Rijksmuseum (Països Baixos) Pdf

Spine title: The art of devotion, 1300-1500."This book accompanies the exhibition ... at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam 26 November 1994-26 February 1995"--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references (p. 188-189) and index.

Author : Colum Hourihane
Publisher : Index of Christian Art Department of Art and Archeology Princeton
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105215346532

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Looking Beyond by Colum Hourihane Pdf

A collection of essays examining the the concept of representing visions and dreams in the medieval period. Includes discussions of modern visions which highlight how our belief in the non-corporal world still exists.