Images of Plague and Pestilence : : Iconography and Iconology / / Christine M. Boeckl.
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 ge...
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Place / Publishing House: | University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021] ©2001 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Medical Aspects of Bubonic Plague and Yersinia pestis Infections -- Chapter 2. Literary Sources of Plague Iconography -- Chapter 3. Visual Sources of Plague Iconography -- Chapter 4. The Black Death and Its Immediate Aftermath (1347-1500) -- Chapter 5. The Sixteenth-Century Renaissance (1500-1600) -- Chapter 6. The Tridentine World: Plague Paintings as Implementations of Catholic Reforms (1600-1775) -- Chapter 7. Revival of Plague Themes and Modern Reverberations (1776-1990s) -- Chapter 8. Plague Imagery, Past and Future -- Appendix. Plague Texts That Influenced Visual Art -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Scripture References |
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Summary: | 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. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780271091181 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9780271091181?locatt=mode:legacy |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Christine M. Boeckl. |