Monumental sounds : : art and listening before Dante / / Matthew G. Shoaf.
"In Monumental Sounds, Matthew G. Shoaf examines interactions between sight and hearing in spectacular church decoration in Italy between 1260-1320. In this "age of vision," authorities' concerns about whether and how worshipers listened to sacred speech spurred Giotto and other...
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| Superior document: | Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History ; Volume 55 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history ;
Volume 55. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (316 pages) |
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Table of 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.