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Faith, Gender and the Senses in Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art - Interpreting the Noli me tangere and Doubting Thomas (Paperback) Loot Price: R1,504
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Faith, Gender and the Senses in Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art - Interpreting the Noli me tangere and Doubting Thomas...

Faith, Gender and the Senses in Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art - Interpreting the Noli me tangere and Doubting Thomas (Paperback)

Erin E. Benay

Series: Visual Culture in Early Modernity

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Taking the Noli me tangere and Doubting Thomas episodes as a focal point, this study examines how visual representations of two of the most compelling and related Christian stories engaged with changing devotional and cultural ideals in Renaissance and Baroque Italy. This book reconsiders depictions of the ambiguous encounter of Mary Magdalene and Christ in the garden (John 20:11-19, known as the Noli me tangere) and that of Christ's post-Resurrection appearance to Thomas (John 20:24-29, the Doubting Thomas) as manifestations of complex theological and art theoretical milieus. By focusing on key artistic monuments of the Italian Renaissance and Baroque periods, the authors demonstrate a relationship between the rise of skeptical philosophy and empirical science, and the efficacy of the senses in the construction of belief. Further, the authors elucidate the differing representational strategies employed by artists to depict touch, and the ways in which these strategies were shaped by gender, social class, and educational level. Indeed, over time St. Thomas became an increasingly public--and therefore masculine--symbol of devotional verification, juridical inquiry, and empirical investigation, while St. Mary Magdalene provided a more private model for pious women, celebrating, mostly behind closed doors, the privileged and active participation of women in the faith. The authors rely on primary source material--paintings, sculptures, religious tracts, hagiography, popular sermons, and new documentary evidence. By reuniting their visual examples with important, often little-known textual sources, the authors reveal a complex relationship between visual imagery, the senses, contemporary attitudes toward gender, and the shaping of belief. Further, they add greater nuance to our understanding of the relationship between popular piety and the visual culture of the period.

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Imprint: Routledge
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Visual Culture in Early Modernity
Release date: June 2017
First published: 2015
Authors: Erin E. Benay
Dimensions: 246 x 174 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 978-1-138-31025-4
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > 1600 to 1800 > Baroque art
Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > 1400 to 1600 > Renaissance art > General
Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Art treatments & subjects > Iconography, subjects depicted in art > Religious subjects depicted in art
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LSN: 1-138-31025-5
Barcode: 9781138310254

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