Stigmatics and Visual Culture in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy

Cordelia Warr (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

316 Seiten

2022
Amsterdam University Press (Verlag)
978-94-6372-456-2 (ISBN)

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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 stimulated controversy. Related to this were issues that were deeply rooted in contemporary visual culture such as how stigmata were described and performed and whether, or how, it was legitimate to represent stigmata in visual art. Because of the contested nature of stigmata and because stigmata did not always manifest in the same form - sometimes invisible, sometimes visible only periodically, sometimes miraculous, and sometimes self-inflicted - they provoked complex questions and reflections relating to the nature and purpose of visual representation.

Dr Cordelia Warr is Senior Lecturer in Art History, University of Manchester, UK. She is the author of Dressing for Heaven (2010), and has co-edited Wounds in the Middle Ages (2013) with Anne Kirkham, Art and Architecture in Naples, 1266-1714 (2010) and The Church of Santa Maria Donna Regina (2004) with Janis Elliott, as well as special issues of the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library (2018) and the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art (2022) with Anne Dunlop.

Acknowledgements, List of illustrations, 1. Introduction: Stigmata and Visual Culture, 2. Saint Francis of Assisi as Image, 3. Representing the Invisible: Saint Catherine of Siena's Stigmatization, 4. The Stigmatic Spectrum and the Visual Arts, 5.Gregorio Lombardelli, Invisibility, and the Representation of Saint Catherine of Siena's Stigmata, 6. Performing stigmata, 7. Painting, Printing, Sculpting, Forgery (and Washing), 8. Conclusion: The Timidity of the Visual Arts, Bibliography, Index

Erscheinungsdatum	13.10.2022
Reihe/Serie	Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700
Sprache	englisch
Maße	174 x 246 mm
Gewicht	940 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
ISBN-10	94-6372-456-7 / 9463724567
ISBN-13	978-94-6372-456-2 / 9789463724562
Zustand	Neuware