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Visualizing Sensuous Suffering and Affective Pain in Early Modern Europe and the Spanish Americas.

Graham, Heather.

Visualizing Sensuous Suffering and Affective Pain in Early Modern Europe and the Spanish Americas. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (462 pages) - Brill's Studies in Intellectual History Series ; v.277 . - Brill's Studies in Intellectual History Series .

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: Visualizing Sensuous Suffering and Affective Pain in Early Modern Europe and the Spanish Americas -- Part 1 Performing Pain -- Chapter 1 Pain and Paint: Titian, Ribera, and the Flaying of Marsyas -- Chapter 2 Animal Trials, Humiliation Rituals, and the Sensuous Suffering of Criminal Offenders in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe -- Chapter 3 Compassionate Suffering: Somatic Selfhood and Gendered Affect in Italian Lamentation Imagery -- Chapter 4 "One of those Lutherans we used to burn in Campo de' Fiori:" Engraving Sublimated Suffering in Counter-Reformation Rome -- Part 2 Pain and Suffering in Franciscan Devotion -- Chapter 5 Pain and Pathos: Franciscan Ideologies and Antonello da Messina's Images of Ecce Homo -- Chapter 6 An Andean Stoning: Francis as Alter Christus in Viceregal Santiago -- Chapter 7 Hagiographical Misery and the Liminal Witness: Novohispanic Franciscan Martyr Portraits and the Politics of Imperial Expansion -- Part 3 Sensuous Suffering Through Word and Image -- Chapter 8 "Eyes Enlivened and Heart Softened:" The Visual Rhetoric of Suffering in Gebedenboek Ruusbroecgenootschap HS 452 -- Chapter 9 Love Hurts: Depictions of Christ Wounded in Love in Colonial Mexican Convents -- Chapter 10 Reparations for Christ Our Lord: Devotional Literature, Penitential Rituals, and Sacred Imagery in Colonial Mexico City -- Chapter 11 Empathetic Wounds: Gregorio Fernández's Cristos yacentes as a Nexus of Art, Anatomy, and Counter-Reformation Theology -- Index.

A trans-cultural collection of studies on early modern imagery of the phenomena of pain and suffering and viewers' potential responses. Authors variously consider pain and suffering as somatic, emotional, and psychological experiences.

9789004360686


Art, Spanish colonial-Themes, motives.
Art, European-Themes, motives.
Suffering in art.
Pain in art.


Electronic books.

N8251.S567 .V578 2018

700.108

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