Reliquary tabernacles in fourteenth-century Italy: image, relic and material culture
Images and relics were central tools in the process of devotional practice in medieval Europe. The reliquary tabernacles that emerged in the 1340s, in the area of Central Italy surrounding the city of Siena, combined images and relics, presented visibly together, within painted and decorated wooden...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Woodbridge
The Boydell Press
2020
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| In: | Year: 2020 |
| Series/Journal: | Boydell studies in medieval art and architecture
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Southern Italy (motif)
/ Marian devotion (motif)
/ Marian image
/ Shrine
/ Christian art
/ History 1300-1400
B Siena / Reliquary / Tabernacle / Künstlerisches Material / Material popular culture / Saints / History 1340-1450 |
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| Summary: | Images and relics were central tools in the process of devotional practice in medieval Europe. The reliquary tabernacles that emerged in the 1340s, in the area of Central Italy surrounding the city of Siena, combined images and relics, presented visibly together, within painted and decorated wooden frames. In these tabernacles the various media and materials worked together to create a powerful and captivating ensemble, usable in several contexts, both in procession and static, as the centre of focussed, prayerful attention. This book looks at Siena and Central Italy as environments of artistic invention, and at Sienese painters in particular as experts in experimentation whose ingenuity encouraged the development of this new form of devotional technology. It is the first full-length study to focus in depth on the materiality of these tabernacles, investigating the connotations and effects of the materials from which they were made. It examines especially the effect of bringing relics and images together, and considers how the impressions of variety and abundance created by the multiplication of materials give birth to meaning and encourage certain kinds of action or thought |
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| Physical Description: | xvi, 239 Seiten, Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 178327476X |