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Insights and interpretations : studies in celebration of the eighty-fifth anniversary of the Index of Christian art / edited by Colum Hourihane.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Occasional papers (Princeton University. Department of Art and Archaeology. Index of Christian Art) ; 5.
- Index of Christian art occasional papers ; 5
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art, Medieval--Themes, motives.
- Art, Medieval.
- Christian art and symbolism--Medieval, 500-1500--Themes, motives.
- Christian art and symbolism.
- Christian art and symbolism--Medieval--Themes, motives.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 236 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, N.J. : Index of Christian Art, Dept. of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University in association with Princeton University Press, [2002]
- Summary:
- Established in 1917, the Index of Christian Art, located at Princeton University, is now the largest archive of medieval art in existence and the most specialized resource for the iconographer. Throughout its eighty-five years, it has justly been recognized as one of the most learned institutions for the study of the art and culture of the medieval world. The essays in this book, all by staff or scholars of the archive, highlight some of the current research in the archive and the scholarship for which it has been widely renowned.
- The studies cover art from the Late Antique period to the end of the fifteenth century and include most of the media represented in the archive, from manuscripts to sculpture to glass. From reinterpreting previous scholarship to making new insights into the medieval mind, they explore such themes as Jephtha's Daughter; Mary Magdalene; Saints Blaise, Paul, Joseph, and Elisabeth of Hungary; and topics including women in the Bibles moralisees, Late German sermons, the iconographic program at Bourges Cathedral, Franciscan devotional art, and a late medieval Islamic manuscript. This volume presents some of the most exciting and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of these subjects, from the home of medieval iconography in Princeton.
- Contents:
- "They stand on his shoulders": Morey, Iconography, and the Index of Christian Art / Colum Hourihane 3
- Mary Magdalen's Seven Deadly Sins in a Thirteenth-Century Liege Psalter-Hours / Adelaide Bennett 17
- Jephthah and His Daughter in Medieval Art: Ambiguities of Heroism and Sacrifice / Lois Drewer 35
- Images of Instruction, Marie de Bretagne, and the Life of St. Eustace as Illustrated in British Library Ms. Egerton 745 / Judith K. Golden 60
- Innovation and Identity: A Franciscan Program of Illumination in the Verger de soulas (Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Ms. fr. 9220) / Lynn Ransom 85
- Picturing Women in the First Bible moralisee / Gerald B. Guest 106
- The Economy of Salvation in Geiler von Kaysersberg: The "Bilger" Frontispiece of 1494 / A. E. Wright 131
- The Iconography of St. Paul in Medieval Malta / Margaret Lindsey 140
- Joseph the Carpenter's Failure at Familial Discipline / Pamela Sheingorn 156
- Dei Saturitas. St. Elizabeth's Works of Mercy in the Medieval Pictorial Narrative / Ivan Gerat 168
- Prophecy in Glass and Stone: Jewish Influences on the Cathedral of Bourges / Margaret Jennings 182
- The Zafarnama [Book of Conquest] of Sultan Husayn Mirza / Mika Natif 211.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0691099901
- 069109991X
- OCLC:
- 49712158
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