Picturing Death 1200-1600

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-43002-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 321/50, 456 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 998 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History / Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History

Picturing Death: 1200–1600 explores the visual culture of mortality over the course of four centuries that witnessed a remarkable flourishing of imagery focused on the themes of death, dying, and the afterlife. In doing so, this volume sheds light on issues that unite two periods—the Middle Ages and the Renaissance—that are often understood as diametrically opposed. The studies collected here cover a broad visual terrain, from tomb sculpture to painted altarpieces, from manuscripts to printed books, and from minute carved objects to large-scale architecture. Taken together, they present a picture of the ways that images have helped humans understand their own mortality, and have incorporated the deceased into the communities of the living.

Contributors: Jessica Barker, Katherine Boivin, Peter Bovenmyer, Xavier Dectot, Maja Dujakovic, Brigit Ferguson, Alison C. Fleming, Fredrika Jacobs, Henrike C. Lange, Robert Marcoux, Walter S. Melion, Stephen Perkinson, Johanna Scheel, Mary Silcox, Judith Steinhoff, and Noa Turel.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Perkinson, Stephen

Turel, Noa

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Praktische Theologie Christliches Leben & Praxis
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Tod, Sterbehilfe: Soziale und Ethische Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Geschichte der Architektur, Baugeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Introduction

Stephen Perkinson and Noa Turel

part 1: Housing the Dead

1 Looking beyond the Face: Tomb Effigies and the Medieval Commemoration of the Dead

Robert Marcoux

2 Portraiture, Projection, Perfection: The Multiple Effigies of Enrico Scrovegni

Henrike Christiane Lange

3 Plorans ploravit in nocte: The Birth of the Figure of the Pleurant in Tomb Sculpture

Xavier Dectot

4 Gendering Prayer in Trecento Florence: Tomb Paintings in Santa Croce and San Remigio

Judith Steinhoff

5 Two-Story Charnel-House Chapels and the Space of Death in the Medieval City

Katherine M. Boivin

part 2: Mortal Anxieties and Living Paradoxes

6 The Living Dead and the Joy of the Crucifixion

Brigit G. Ferguson

7 The Speaking Tomb: Ventriloquizing the Voices of the Dead

Jessica Barker

8 Feeding Worms: The Theological Paradox of the Decaying Body and Its Depictions in the Context of Prayer and Devotion

Johanna Scheel

9 Not Quite Dead: Imaging the Miracle of Infant Resuscitation

Fredrika H. Jacobs

part 3: The Macabre, Instrumentalized

10 Dissecting for the King: Guido da Vigevano and the Anatomy of Death

Peter Bovenmyer

11 Covert Apotheoses: Archbishop Henry Chichele’s Tomb and the Vocational Logic of Early Transis

Noa Turel

12 Into Print: Early Illustrated Books and the Reframing of the Danse Macabre

Maja Dujakovic

13 Death Commodified: Macabre Imagery on Luxury Objects, c. 1500

Stephen Perkinson

part 4: Departure and Persistence

14 Coemeterium Schola: The Emblematic Imagery of Death in Jan David’s Veridicus Christianus

Walter S. Melion

15 A Protestant Reconceptualization of Images of Death and the Afterlife in Stephen Bateman’s A Christall Glasse

Mary V. Silcox

16 Shifting Role Models within the Society of Jesus: The Abandonment of Grisly Martyrdom Images c. 1600

Alison C. Fleming

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Stephen Perkinson, Ph.D. (1998, Northwestern University), is Professor of Art History and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Bowdoin College. He is the author of The Likeness of the King (Chicago, 2009) and The Ivory Mirror (Yale, 2017).

Noa Turel, Ph.D. (2012, University of California, Santa Barbara), is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She is the author of Living Pictures: Jan van Eyck and Painting’s First Century (Yale, 2020).