| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 302 pages) : illustrations. |
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Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history,
1878-9048 ;
volume 55
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Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history ; v. 55.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Illustrations -- Introduction An Unheard Art -- 1 Knowing Hearing -- 2 Hearing Eclipsed -- 3 Shapers of Ears -- 4 Monumental Sounds -- Chapter 1 Listening Up -- 1 Aural Sensitivities -- 2 Lost Hearing -- 3 Great Listeners -- Chapter 2 The Ear, Estranged -- 1 Seeing Listening -- 2 Ear Blindness -- 3 Stasis and Significance -- Chapter 3 A Feast for the Ears -- 1 Giotto's The Wedding Feast at Cana -- 2 Scale of Listening -- 3 Rebirth through the Ear -- 4 Aural Ambitions -- Chapter 4 Sound Restoration -- 1 Nicola Pisano's Pulpit in Pisa -- 2 Raising Voices |
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3 Silenced Skeptic -- 4 Antique Resonance -- 5 Muted Clergy -- 6 Sculptural Ephpheta! -- Chapter 5 Higher Fidelity -- 1 The Isaac Frescoes in Assisi -- 2 Return of the Repressed Sense -- 3 Aural Ancestry -- 4 Hidden by Sight -- 5 Auditory Interests -- Conclusion Humbling Sight -- Bibliography -- Index of Modern Authors -- Index of Early Sources -- Index of Subjects |
| Summary |
"In Monumental Sounds, Matthew G. Shoaf examines interactions between sight and hearing in spectacular church decoration in Italy between 1260-1320. In this "age of vision," authorities' concerns about whether and how worshipers listened to sacred speech spurred Giotto and other artists to reconfigure sacred stories to activate listening and ultimately bypass phenomenal experience for attitudes of inner receptivity. New naturalistic styles served that work, prompting viewers to give voice to depicted speech and guiding them toward spiritually fruitful auditory discipline. This study reimagines narrative pictures as site-specific extensions of a cultural system that made listening a meaningful practice. Close reading of religious texts, poetry, and art historiography augments Shoaf's novel approach to pictorial naturalism and art's multisensorial dimensions"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Senses and sensation in art.
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Christian art and symbolism -- Italy -- Medieval, 500-1500.
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Art, Gothic -- Italy -- Themes, motives.
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Narrative art, Italian -- Themes, motives.
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Senses and sensation -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Art, Gothic -- Themes, motives |
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Christian art and symbolism -- Medieval |
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Senses and sensation in art |
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Senses and sensation -- Religious aspects -- Christianity |
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Italy |
| Chronological Term |
500-1500 |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Shoaf, Matthew G. Monumental sounds Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021] 9789004415003 (DLC) 2021016913 |
| ISBN |
9789004460812 electronic book |
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9004460810 electronic book |
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9789004415003 hardcover |
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