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A printed icon : Forlì's Madonna of the Fire / Lisa Pon.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pon, Lisa, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint--Art.
- Mary.
- Jesus Christ--Art.
- Jesus Christ.
- Madonna of the fire.
- Wood-engraving, Italian--15th century.
- Wood-engraving, Italian.
- Icons--Cult--Italy--Forlì.
- Icons.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 288 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In 1428, a devastating fire destroyed a schoolhouse in the northern Italian city of Forlì, leaving only a woodcut of the Madonna and Child that had been tacked to the classroom wall. The people of Forlì carried that print - now known as the Madonna of the Fire - into their cathedral, where two centuries later a new chapel was built to enshrine it. In this book, Lisa Pon considers a cascade of moments in the Madonna of the Fire's cultural biography: when ink was impressed onto paper at a now-unknown date; when that sheet was recognized by Forlì's people as miraculous; when it was enshrined in various tabernacles and chapels in the cathedral; when it or one of its copies was - and still is - carried in procession. In doing so, Pon offers an experiment in art historical inquiry that spans more than three centuries of making, remaking, and renewal.
- Contents:
- Thing. Iconography: Madonna and child; Imprint: paper, print, and matrix; Emplacement. Miracle: the fire of February 4, 1428; Domestic display: Lombardino da Ripetrosa's schoolhouse; Ecclesiastical enshrinement: the cathedral of Forlì; Mobilities. Moving in the city: the translation of 1636; Mobile in print: the procession on paper; Multiplied: the Madonna of the Fire in Forlì and beyond.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical reference and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781316324066
- 1316324060
- 9781316310687
- 131631068X
- 9781316327401
- 131632740X
- 9781316330746
- 1316330745
- 9781316334089
- 1316334082
- 9781316162293
- 131616229X
- 9781316290040
- 1316290042
- 9781316320709
- 1316320707
- Publisher Number:
- 2027/heb34032 hdl
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