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Author:   Stephen Perkinson ,  Noa Turel
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   321/50
Weight:   0.999kg
ISBN:  

9789004430020

ISBN 10:   9004430024
Pages:   456
Publication Date:   19 November 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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List of Illustrations Introduction  Stephen Perkinson and Noa Turel part 1: Housing the Dead 1 Looking beyond the Face: Tomb Effigies and the Medieval Commemoration of the Dead  Robert Marcoux 2 Portraiture, Projection, Perfection: The Multiple Effigies of Enrico Scrovegni  Henrike Christiane Lange 3 Plorans ploravit in nocte: The Birth of the Figure of the Pleurant in Tomb Sculpture  Xavier Dectot 4 Gendering Prayer in Trecento Florence: Tomb Paintings in Santa Croce and San Remigio  Judith Steinhoff 5 Two-Story Charnel-House Chapels and the Space of Death in the Medieval City  Katherine M. Boivin part 2: Mortal Anxieties and Living Paradoxes 6 The Living Dead and the Joy of the Crucifixion  Brigit G. Ferguson 7 The Speaking Tomb: Ventriloquizing the Voices of the Dead  Jessica Barker 8 Feeding Worms: The Theological Paradox of the Decaying Body and Its Depictions in the Context of Prayer and Devotion  Johanna Scheel 9 Not Quite Dead: Imaging the Miracle of Infant Resuscitation  Fredrika H. Jacobs part 3: The Macabre, Instrumentalized 10 Dissecting for the King: Guido da Vigevano and the Anatomy of Death  Peter Bovenmyer 11 Covert Apotheoses: Archbishop Henry Chichele’s Tomb and the Vocational Logic of Early Transis  Noa Turel 12 Into Print: Early Illustrated Books and the Reframing of the Danse Macabre  Maja Dujakovic 13 Death Commodified: Macabre Imagery on Luxury Objects, c. 1500  Stephen Perkinson part 4: Departure and Persistence 14 Coemeterium Schola: The Emblematic Imagery of Death in Jan David’s Veridicus Christianus  Walter S. Melion 15 A Protestant Reconceptualization of Images of Death and the Afterlife in Stephen Bateman’s A Christall Glasse  Mary V. Silcox 16 Shifting Role Models within the Society of Jesus: The Abandonment of Grisly Martyrdom Images c. 1600  Alison C. Fleming Bibliography Index

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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).

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