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Lisa Pon examines the cultural biography of the city of Forlì's miraculous woodcut, the Madonna of the Fire.
List of contents
Part I. Thing: 1. Iconography: Madonna and child; 2. Imprint: paper, print, and matrix; Part II. Emplacement: 3. Miracle: the fire of February 4, 1428; 4. Domestic display: Lombardino da Ripetrosa's schoolhouse; 5. Ecclesiastical enshrinement: the cathedral of Forlì; Part III. Mobilities: 6. Moving in the city: the translation of 1636; 7. Mobile in print: the procession on paper; 8. Multiplied: the Madonna of the Fire in Forlì and beyond.
About the author
Lisa Pon is an associate professor in the Department of Art History at Southern Methodist University's Meadows School of the Arts, where she teaches the history of early modern European art, architecture, and visual culture. She has received research grants or fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, the American Philosophical Society, the Center for the Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, the Getty Research Institute, and the Warburg Institute. She has published numerous articles in international academic journals and is author of Raphael, Dürer, and Marcantonio Raimondi (2004) and coeditor of The Books of Venice/Il Libro Veneziano (2008, with Craig Kallendorf).
Summary
In this book, Lisa Pon considers a cascade of moments in the cultural biography of the town of Forlì's miraculous woodcut, the Madonna of the Fire. In doing so, Pon offers an experiment in art historical inquiry that spans more than three centuries of making, remaking, and renewal.
