Picturing Death 1200-1600 / edited by Stephen Perkinson, Noa Turel.
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 an...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2021]
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| Series: | Brill's studies in intellectual history ;
v. 321. Brill's studies in intellectual history. Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history ; v. 50. |
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| Online Access: | Click here to view this book |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xx, 454 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9004441115 9789004441118 |