Picturing Death 1200-1600.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (474 pages)
- Brill's Studies in Intellectual History Series ; v.321 .
- Brill's Studies in Intellectual History Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- Part 1 Housing the Dead -- Chapter 1 Looking beyond the Face: Tomb Effigies and theMedieval Commemoration of the Dead -- Chapter 2 Portraiture, Projection, Perfection: The Multiple Effigies of Enrico Scrovegni -- Chapter 3 Plorans ploravit in nocte: The Birth of the Figure of the Pleurant in Tomb Sculpture -- Chapter 4 Gendering Prayer in Trecento Florence: Tomb Paintings in Santa Croce and San Remigio -- Chapter 5 Two-Story Charnel-House Chapels and the Space of Death in the Medieval City -- Part 2 Mortal Anxieties and Living Paradoxes -- Chapter 6 The Living Dead and the Joy of the Crucifixion -- Chapter 7 The Speaking Tomb: Ventriloquizing the Voicesof the Dead -- Chapter 8 Feeding Worms: The Theological Paradox of the Decaying Body and Its Depictions in the Context of Prayer and Devotion -- Chapter 9 Not Quite Dead: Imaging the Miracle of Infant Resuscitation -- Part 3 The Macabre, Instrumentalized -- Chapter 10 Dissecting for the King: Guido da Vigevano and the Anatomy of Death -- Chapter 11 Covert Apotheoses: Archbishop Henry Chichele's Tomb and the Vocational Logic of Early Transis -- Chapter 12 Into Print: Early Illustrated Books and the Reframing of the Danse Macabre -- Chapter 13 Death Commodified: Macabre Imagery on Luxury Objects, c. 1500 -- Part 4 Departure and Persistence -- Chapter 14 Coemeterium Schola: The Emblematic Imagery of Death in Jan David's Veridicus Christianus -- Chapter 15 A Protestant Reconceptualization of Images of Death and the Afterlife in Stephen Bateman's A Christall Glasse -- Chapter 16 Shifting Role Models within the Society of Jesus: The Abandonment of Grisly Martyrdom Images c. 1600 -- Bibliography -- Index.
Picturing Death: 1200-1600 brings together essays considering four key centuries of imagery related to human mortality, from tomb sculpture to painted altarpieces, from manuscripts to printed books, and from minute carved objects to large-scale architecture.