Hope and Healing - Painting in Italy in a Time of Plague, 1500-1800 (Paperback, 73rd ed.)

The bubonic plague ravaged early modern Europe from the mid-fourteenth to the early eighteenth centuries striking so often and in so many localities that people were constantly on guard against the scourge. Hope and Healing explores the response of the visual arts to this omnipresent aura of death, decay, and tragedy in the early modern European experience, focusing on Italy between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. An esteemed group of contributors draws on a wide range of materials, including diaries, medical and devotional treatises, poetry, sermons, letters, and chapbooks to illuminate the various aesthetic, social, and religious concerns that preoccupied artists, patrons, and the general populace. This vibrant and fascinating volume ultimately offers a fresh and intriguing perspective on the forces and concerns that shaped early modern Italian art.

General

Imprint:	Worcester Art Museum
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 2005
First published:	March 2005
Editors:	Gauvin Alexander Bailey • Pamela M. Jones • Franco Mormando • Thomas W Worcester
Dimensions:	271 x 206 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	272
Edition:	73rd ed.
ISBN-13:	978-0-936042-05-3
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > 1400 to 1600 > General Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > 1600 to 1800 > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Painting & paintings > General
LSN:	0-936042-05-2
Barcode:	9780936042053

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