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Author Jacobs, Fredrika Herman.

Title Votive panels and popular piety in early modern Italy / Fredrika H. Jacobs, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond.

Publication Info. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 248 pages, 8 pages of plates) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
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Summary "In the late fifteenth century, votive panel paintings, or tavolette votive, began to accumulate around reliquary shrines and miracle-working images throughout Italy. Although often dismissed as popular art of little aesthetic consequence, more than 1,500 panels from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries are extant, a testimony to their ubiquity and importance in religious practice. Humble in both their materiality and style, they represent donors in prayer and supplicants petitioning a saint at a dramatic moment of crisis. In this book, Fredrika H. Jacobs traces the origins and development of the use of votive panels in this period. She examines the form, context and functional value of votive panels, and considers how they created meaning for the person who dedicated them as well as how they accrued meaning in relationship to other images and objects within a sacred space activated by practices of cultic culture"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Cover; Votive Panels and Popular Piety in Early Modern Italy; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Title; I Dialogues of Devotion:; II Tavolette Votive:; Totaling the Evidence: Production, Preservation, and Destruction; An Object within a Complex; The Checkered History of Acknowledging Miracles; Chronological Parameters: Circa 1470, the terminus a quo; Chronological Parameters: Circa 1610, a terminus ad quem; III Determining Functional Value:; Humble "Gifts": Questioning Terminology and Reflecting on Style.
Attesting Miracles: Advocating the causa of Nicholas of Tolentino in Word and ImageMiracles, Sanctity, and the Testimonial Power of the vox populi; The Special Case of Mary; Documenting the Quotidian with Specificity; IV Narrative Modes; Structuring Narrative; Narratives within the Frame; Narratives beyond the Frame; V Signs of Faith, Signs of Superstition; Amplifying Trent; Imaging Exorcism; Exorcism: A Contested Ritual; Signs; Burning the Devil's Image; Afterword; Notes; Dialogues of Devotion: An Introduction; Tavolette Votive: Form, Function, Context.
Determining Functional Value: Attestations of Fact and FaithNarrative MoDeS; Signs of Faith, Signs of Superstition; Afterword; Selected Bibliography; Index.
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Subject Votive offerings -- Italy.
Votive offerings.
Italy.
Panel painting, Italian -- 15th century.
Panel painting, Italian.
Chronological Term 15th century
Subject Panel painting, Italian -- 16th century.
Chronological Term 16th century
Subject Christian art and symbolism -- Italy -- Modern period, 1500-
Christianity and culture -- Italy -- History -- 16th century.
Christianity and culture.
History.
Art and popular culture -- Italy -- History -- 16th century.
Art and popular culture.
Chronological Term Since 1400
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Jacobs, Fredrika Herman. Votive panels and popular piety in early modern Italy 9781107023048 (DLC) 2013019583 (OCoLC)828140292
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