Mary Magdalene, iconographic studies from the Middle Ages to the Baroque / edited by Michelle A. Erhardt and Amy M. Morris.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Erhardt, Michelle A., editor.

Morris, Amy M., editor.

Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

Series:

Studies in religion and the arts ; v. 7.

Studies in religion and the arts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mary Magdalene, Saint--Art.

Mary Magdalene.

Mary Magdalene, Saint.

Genre:

Art.

Physical Description:

xxxv, 453 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Brill, 2012.

Summary:

Mary Magdalene: Iconographic Studies from the Middle Ages to the Baroque examines the iconographic inventions in Magdalene imagery and the contextual factors that shaped her representation in visual art from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries. Unique to other saints in the medieval lexicon, images of Mary Magdalene were altered over time to satisfy the changing needs of her patrons as well as her audience. By shedding light on the relationship between the Magdalene and her patrons, both corporate and private, as well as the religious institutions and regions where her imagery is found, this anthology reveals the flexibility of the Magdalene's character in art and, in essence, the reinvention of her iconography from one generation to the next. Book jacket.

Contents:

The Magdalene as mirror: trecento Franciscan imagery in the Guidalotti-Rinuccini Chapel, Florence / Michelle A. Erhardt

Mary Magdalene and her dear sister: innovation in the late medieval mural cycle of Santa Maddalena in Rencio (Bolzano) / Joanne W. Anderson

The German iconography of the Saint Magdalene Altarpiece: documenting its context / Amy M. Morris

The printed penitent: Magdalene imagery and prostitution reform in early modern Italian chapbooks and broadsheets / Rachel Geschwind

Tintoretto's holy hermits at the Scuola Grande di San Rocco / Elizabeth Carroll Consavari

Irony and realism in the iconography of Caravaggio's Penitent Magdalene / Patrick Hunt

The gaze in the garden: Mary Magdalene in Noli me tangere / Barbara Baert

Michaelangelo's Noli me tangere for Vittoria Colonna, and the changing status of women in Renaissance Italy / Lisa M. Rafanelli

Woman, why weepest thou? Rembrandt's 1638 Noli me tangere as a Dutch Calvinist visual typology / Bobbi Dykema

The Magdalene and "Madame": piety, politics, and personal agenda in Louise of Savoy's Vie de la Magdalene / Barbara J. Johnston

Mary Magdalene between public cult and personal devotion in Correggio's Noli me tangere / Margaret A. Morse

Reflections on a glass Madeleine Pénitente / Jane Eade

Exorcism in the iconography of Mary Magdalene / Andrea Begel

"Woman, why weepest thou?" Mary Magdalene, the Virgin Mary and the transformative power of holy tears in late medieval devotional painting / Vibeke Olson

Mary Magdalene and the iconography of domesticity / Annette LeZotte

Marketing Mary Magdalene in early modern northern European prints and paintings / Michelle Moseley-Christian.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

ISBN:

9004231951

9789004231955

OCLC:

801681531

Publisher Number:

99963968151