Pious journeys : Christian devotional art and practice in the later Middle Ages and Renaissance / Linda Seidel ; with contributions by Jennifer Sarene Berg ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Seidel, Linda.

Contributor:

David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian art and symbolism--Medieval, 500-1500--Exhibitions.

Christian art and symbolism.

Art, Medieval--Themes, motives--Exhibitions.

Art, Medieval.

Art, Medieval--Themes, motives.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

vii, 90 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Ill. : David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, [2001]

Summary:

In their ongoing search for divinity, Western European Christians followed many different paths to a personal connection with the eternal, including the intimacies of private prayer, the spectacle of the Mass, and the veneration of saintly relics. Along the way, art objects and artifacts served as companions, guides, and comforts. The essays in this catalogue consider the central role objects and images played in these spiritual journeys. They investigate imagery's critical role in the development of personal devotions, in the organization of liturgical worship, and in practices surrounding the institution of the Eucharist and the cult of saints.

Contents:

In medias res : objects and the mobilization of collective piety / Matthew Shoaf

Bodies of heaven and earth : Christ and the saints in medieval art and devotion / Stefania Rosenstein

Seeing objects in private devotion / Stephanie Leitch

Pious journeys : exhibition as course / Linda Seidel

The territories of pilgrimage / Jennifer Sarene Berg ... [et al.].

Notes:

"Catalogue of an exhibition at The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, 14 March-10 September 2000"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 88-90).

ISBN:

0935573305

OCLC:

48121518