Death, Disease and Mystical Experience in Early Modern Art
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Death, Disease and Mystical Experience in Early Modern Art

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Death, Disease and Mystical Experience in Early Modern Art

About this book

Fear of death and disease preoccupied the European consciousness throughout the early modern era, becoming most acute at times of plague and epidemics. In these times of heightened anxieties, images of saints and protectors served to reassure the faithful of their religious protection against infection. Modes of visual engagement and devotional subject matter were coupled in new ways to reinforce the emotive impact of art works and to reaffirm the perceived reality of the afterlife. In this context, a visual language of mystical devotion, which overcame the limits of the body and even eroticised its suffering, could serve the needs of the desolate and the pained. In this series of essays focused on spiritual sensibilities in Renaissance art and its legacies, authors present original ideas about the themes of death, disease, and mystical experience, based primarily on the study of objects and their documented historical contexts. Methodologically wide-ranging in approach, the resulting volume provides novel insights into the interplay between suffering and art making in the Western world.

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Yes, you can access Death, Disease and Mystical Experience in Early Modern Art by Michael Hill,Jennifer Milam in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Art & History of Renaissance Art. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9781040797037
Topic
Art
Subtopic
History of Renaissance Art

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Table of Contents
  7. List of Illustrations
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Introduction: Manipulating the Sacred
  10. 1. Mary as Model for Trecento Mourning
  11. 2. “Pacem meam do vobis”: Earthly Suffering and Celestial Redemption in the Trecento Fresco Program by Vitale da Bologna at Pomposa Abbey
  12. 3. Dying to be Born Again: Death in the Florentine “Sacre Rappresentazioni”
  13. 4. The Visual Transformations of St Anthony the Abbot: From Protector of the Sick to Victor over Sexual Desire
  14. 5. Giovanni Cariani’s “Woman Reclining in a Landscape”: The Erotic Subverted
  15. 6. Touching Visions: Female Mystics Interacting with the Christ Child and with Mary
  16. 7. Queering Mysticism and the Lactating Virgin: The “Madonna delle Grazie with Souls in Purgatory” and its Audience of Nuns
  17. 8. Securing Heavenly Protection in Apocalyptic Times: A Series of Fresco Votives in the Oratory of San Giovanni Battista in Urbino.
  18. 9. The Long Goodbye: Resurrecting Rome’s Apostolic Past in “The Final Embrace of Saints Peter and Paul”
  19. 10. The Beautiful Death of the Count of Orgaz: Andrés Núñez, El Greco, and the Making of a Counter Reformation Saint
  20. 11. A Vessel to be Filled: Caravaggio’s “Conversion of St. Paul” in Santa Maria del Popolo
  21. 12. Lo Strascino’s “Lamento” and the Visual Culture of the French Pox around 1500
  22. 13. Whiz King: Urination as Divination in Prints for Louis XIV
  23. 14. David’s “Saint Roch”: Plague Painting in the Age of Enlightenment
  24. 15. Blake’s Petworth House “Last Judgment” and Female Anatomy
  25. 16. Cocteau’s London Elegy: Re-purposed Renaissance Imagery in a Twentieth-Century Crucifixion
  26. Bibliography
  27. Index