Art and faith in the Venetian world : venerating Christ as the Man of Sorrows / Catherine R. Puglisi, William L. Barcham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Puglisi, Catherine R., 1953- author.

Barcham, William L., author.

Contributor:

Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

Series:

In the Shadow of the Lion of St. Mark ; 1.

In the Shadow of the Lion of St. Mark ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Man of Sorrows (Art).

Christian art and symbolism--Italy--Venice--Medieval, 500-1500.

Christian art and symbolism.

Christian art and symbolism--Italy--Venice--16th century.

Christian art and symbolism--Medieval.

Italy--Venice.

Physical Description:

425 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm.

Other Title:

Venerating Christ as the Man of Sorrows

Place of Publication:

London ; Turnhout : Harvey Miller Publishers, [2019]

Summary:

A study of Christ as Man of Sorrows in the Venetian world from the late Medieval through the Baroque era. Art and Faith in Venice is the first study of the Man of Sorrows in the art and culture of Venice and her dominions across three centuries. A subject imbued with deep spiritual and metaphorical significance, the image pervaded late-Medieval Europe but assumed in the Venetian world an unusually rich and long life. The book presents a biography, first tracing the transmission of the image as a vertical, half-length figure devoid of narrative from the Byzantine East c. 1275 and then exploring its gradual adaptation and diffusion across the Venetian state to a wide range of media, reaching from small manuscript illuminations to panel paintings, altarpieces, tombs and liturgical furnishings. Analyzing its nomenclature, visual form and layered meanings, the study demonstrates how this universal image played a prominent role responding to public and private devotions in the spiritual and cultural life of Venice and its larger political sphere of influence. Catherine Puglisi and William Barcham have written extensively on the Man of Sorrows and co-curated an exhibition on the subject in New York in 2011. Each also publishes separately, Puglisi on Caravaggio and Bolognese art, and Barcham on Venetian 18th-century painting.

Contents:

Chapter One: The transmission, diffusion and Burgeoning of the Man of Sorrows in the Venetian World, ca. 1290-ca. 1425

Chapter Two: The Cristo passo in the Early Renaissance. Innovation and Originality vs. Continuity and Archaism

Chapter Three: Tradition adn transformations of the cristo passo in a Century of Crisis and Renewal.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-367) and indexes.

Local Notes:

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

ISBN:

9781912554294

1912554291

OCLC:

1096230637

Publisher Number:

99993574895