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1 online resource (xx, 454 pages) : illustrations |
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Middle Ages |
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Renaissance |
| Series |
Brill's studies in intellectual history ; volume 321
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Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history ; volume 50
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Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 321.
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Brill's studies in intellectual history. Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history ; v. 50.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Part 1. Housing the dead -- Part 2. Mortal anxieties and living paradoxes -- Part 3. The macabre, instrumentalized -- Part 4. Departure and persistence. |
| Summary |
Picturing Death: 1200-1600 explores the visual culture of mortality over the course of four centuries that witnessed a remarkable flourishing of imagery focused on the themes of death, dying, and the afterlife. In doing so, this volume sheds light on issues that unite two periods--the Middle Ages and the Renaissance--that are often understood as diametrically opposed. The studies collected here cover a broad visual terrain, from tomb sculpture to painted altarpieces, from manuscripts to printed books, and from minute carved objects to large-scale architecture. Taken together, they present a picture of the ways that images have helped humans understand their own mortality, and have incorporated the deceased into the communities of the living. |
| Biography |
Stephen Perkinson, Ph. D. (1998, Northwestern University), is Professor of Art History and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Bowdoin College. He is the author of The Likeness of the King (Chicago, 2009) and The Ivory Mirror (Yale, 2017). Noa Turel, Ph. D. (2012, University of California, Santa Barbara), is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She is the author of Living Pictures: Jan van Eyck and Painting's First Century (Yale, 2020). |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Death in art.
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Death in art. |
| Added Author |
Perkinson, Stephen, editor.
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Turel, Noa, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Picturing death 1200-1600. Leiden : Brill, [2021] 9789004430020 (OCoLC)1227473491 |
| ISBN |
9789004441118 (electronic book) |
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9004441115 (electronic book) |
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9789004430020 (hardback) |
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