Images of Plague and Pestilence: Iconography and Iconology: 53 - Brossura

Boeckl, Christine M.

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ISBN 10: 094354985X ISBN 13: 9780943549859

Casa editrice: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, 2000

Riassunto

Since the late fourteenth century, European artists created an extensive body of images, in paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, and other media, about the horrors of disease and death, as well as hope and salvation. This interdisciplinary study on disease in metaphysical context is the first general overview of plague art written from an art-historical standpoint. The book selects masterpieces created by Raphael, Titian, Tintoretto, Rubens, Van Dyck, and Poussin, and includes minor works dating from the fourteenth to twentieth centuries. It highlights the most important innovative artistic works that originated during the Renaissance and the Catholic Reformation. This study of the changing iconographic patterns and their iconological interpretations opens a window to the past.

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L'autore:

Christine M. Boeckl was born in Vienna, Austria, and studied art history and classical archaeology at the University of Vienna. She emigrated to the U.S. and received her PhD in the history of art from the University of Maryland. She is a professor emerita at the University of Nebraska at Kearney.

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• Editore: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 094354985X
• ISBN 13: 9780943549859
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 210