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Monumental sounds : art and listening before Dante / by Matthew G. Shoaf.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Shoaf, Matthew G., author.
Contributor:
E.J. Brill (Firm)
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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