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Monumental sounds : art and listening before Dante / by Matthew G. Shoaf.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shoaf, Matthew G., author.
- Series:
- Brill's studies in intellectual history. Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history ; v. 55.
- Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history, 1878-9048 ; volume 55
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Senses and sensation in art.
- Christian art and symbolism--Italy--Medieval, 500-1500.
- Christian art and symbolism.
- Narrative art, Italian.
- Themes, motives.
- Art, Gothic.
- Italy.
- Art, Gothic--Italy--Themes, motives.
- Narrative art, Italian--Themes, motives.
- Senses and sensation--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Senses and sensation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 302 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Illustrations
- Introduction An Unheard Art
- 1 Knowing Hearing
- 2 Hearing Eclipsed
- 3 Shapers of Ears
- 4 Monumental Sounds
- Chapter 1 Listening Up
- 1 Aural Sensitivities
- 2 Lost Hearing
- 3 Great Listeners
- Chapter 2 The Ear, Estranged
- 1 Seeing Listening
- 2 Ear Blindness
- 3 Stasis and Significance
- Chapter 3 A Feast for the Ears
- 1 Giotto's The Wedding Feast at Cana
- 2 Scale of Listening
- 3 Rebirth through the Ear
- 4 Aural Ambitions
- Chapter 4 Sound Restoration
- 1 Nicola Pisano's Pulpit in Pisa
- 2 Raising Voices
- 3 Silenced Skeptic
- 4 Antique Resonance
- 5 Muted Clergy
- 6 Sculptural Ephpheta!
- Chapter 5 Higher Fidelity
- 1 The Isaac Frescoes in Assisi
- 2 Return of the Repressed Sense
- 3 Aural Ancestry
- 4 Hidden by Sight
- 5 Auditory Interests
- Conclusion Humbling Sight
- Bibliography
- Index of Modern Authors
- Index of Early Sources
- Index of Subjects
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Leiden, Netherlands Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 02, 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Shoaf, Matthew G. Monumental sounds
- ISBN:
- 9789004460812
- 9004460810
- Publisher Number:
- 40030669387
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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