Stigmatics and Visual Culture in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy /

This book places the discourse surrounding stigmata within the visual culture of the late medieval and early modern periods, with a particular focus on Italy and on female stigmatics. Echoing, and to a certain extent recreating, the wounds and pain inflicted on Christ during his passion, stigmata st...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Warr, Cordelia (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2022
Series:Visual and material culture, 1300-1700.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Gender identity in art.
Women in art.
Religion in art.
Stigmatization in art.
Art and society > Italy > History.
Painting, Italian.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : stigmata and visual culture
  • Saint Francis of Assisi as image
  • Representing the invisible : Saint Catherine of Siena's stigmatization
  • The stigmatic spectrum and the visual arts
  • Gregorio Lombardelli, invisibility, and the representation of Saint Catherine of Siena's stigmata
  • Performing stigmata
  • Painting, printing, sculpting, forgery (and washing)
  • Conclusion : the timidity of the visual arts.

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