The Art of Healing - Painting for the Sick and the Sinner in a Medieval Town

About the author

Marcia Kupfer is Associate Director for Washington Humanities Program at Johns Hopkins University. Kupfer is also an independent scholar who has taught medieval art at several American universities and in 1999 was professeur invité at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. She is the author of Romanesque Wall Painting in Central France: The Politics of Narrative (1993).

Summary

Looking closely at paintings from ca 1200 in the church of Saint Aignan-sur-Cher, Kupfer traces their links to burial practices, the veneration of saints and the care of the sick in nearby hospitals, in an exploration of the significance of architecture and image-making in medieval society.

Product details

• Authors: Marcia Kupfer, Marcia (independent scholar) Kupfer, Kupfer Marcia
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.09.2003
• EAN: 9780271023038
• ISBN: 978-0-271-02303-8
• Dimensions: 171 mm x 254 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 880 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Europe, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, ART / European, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Christian life & practice, History of Art, History of art: Byzantine & Medieval art c 500 CE to c 1400, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Painting & paintings, Social and cultural anthropology, Christian life and practice, RELIGION / Christian Living / General, Paintings and painting, Medieval style, ART / History / European / Medieval