Votive Panels and Popular Piety in Early Modern Italy

Informationen zum Autor Fredrika H. Jacobs is Professor Emerita of Art History, Virginia Commonwealth University. She is the author of Defining the Renaissance 'Virtuosa': Women Artists and the Language of Art History and Criticism (Cambridge University Press, 1997) and The Living Image in Renaissance Art (Cambridge University Press, 2005). She has contributed numerous essays to a variety of books dealing with gender, aesthetics and popular culture in the Renaissance. Her work has appeared in numerous scholarly journals and anthologies, including Renaissance Quarterly, The Art Bulletin, and Word and Image. Klappentext This book traces the origins and development of the use of votive panel paintings in Italy in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Zusammenfassung In the late fifteenth century! votive panel paintings! or tavolette votive! began to accumulate around reliquary shrines and miracle-working images throughout Italy. Fredrika H. Jacobs traces the origins and development of the use of votive panels. She examines the form! context and functional value of votive panels! and how they created meaning for the person who dedicated the image to a saint. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Dialogues of devotion: an introduction; 2. Tavolette votive: form, function, context; 3. Determining functional value: attestations of fact and faith; 4. Narrative modes; 5. Signs of faith, signs of superstition.

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• Authors: Fredrika Jacobs, Fredrika (Virginia Commonwealth University Jacobs, Fredrika H Jacobs, Fredrika H. Jacobs, Fredrika H. (Virginia Commonwealth Univers Jacobs, Fredrika H. (Virginia Commonwealth University) Jacobs, Jacobs Fredrika H.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.10.2013
• EAN: 9781107023048
• ISBN: 978-1-107-02304-8
• No. of pages: 260
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Humanities, art, music > Art > Plastic arts; ART / History / General, ART / Subjects & Themes / Religious, RELIGION / Christianity / General, ART / European, RELIGION / Christian Rituals & Practice / General, Italy, Christianity, History of Art, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Painting & paintings, Renaissance art, Renaissance style, Christian worship, rites & ceremonies, Worship, rites, ceremonies and rituals, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, Paintings and painting, Religious subjects depicted in art, Religious and ceremonial art