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Votive panels and popular piety in early modern Italy /

"In the late fifteenth century, votive panel paintings, or tavolette votive, began to accumulate around reliquary shrines and miracle-working images throughout Italy. Although often dismissed as popular art of little aesthetic consequence, more than 1,500 panels from the fifteenth and sixteenth...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jacobs, Fredrika Herman
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
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  • Cover; Votive Panels and Popular Piety in Early Modern Italy; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Title; I Dialogues of Devotion:; II Tavolette Votive:; Totaling the Evidence: Production, Preservation, and Destruction; An Object within a Complex; The Checkered History of Acknowledging Miracles; Chronological Parameters: Circa 1470, the terminus a quo; Chronological Parameters: Circa 1610, a terminus ad quem; III Determining Functional Value:; Humble "Gifts": Questioning Terminology and Reflecting on Style.
  • Attesting Miracles: Advocating the causa of Nicholas of Tolentino in Word and ImageMiracles, Sanctity, and the Testimonial Power of the vox populi; The Special Case of Mary; Documenting the Quotidian with Specificity; IV Narrative Modes; Structuring Narrative; Narratives within the Frame; Narratives beyond the Frame; V Signs of Faith, Signs of Superstition; Amplifying Trent; Imaging Exorcism; Exorcism: A Contested Ritual; Signs; Burning the Devil's Image; Afterword; Notes; Dialogues of Devotion: An Introduction; Tavolette Votive: Form, Function, Context.
  • Determining Functional Value: Attestations of Fact and FaithNarrative MoDeS; Signs of Faith, Signs of Superstition; Afterword; Selected Bibliography; Index.