Visualizing the Art of Dying in Early Protestant Scandinavia: A Reading of a Late Sixteenth-Century Tapestry from Leksvik, Norway
The article offers a close reading of a remarkable late 16-th century tapestry from Leksvik Church in Norway. Abounding with biblical quotations in Danish, the tapestry represents a dying man surrounded by personifications of virtues. The author considers this artifact a visualized ars moriendi , an...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2014
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Journal of Early Modern Christianity
Year: 2014, Volume: 1, Issue: 1, Pages: 115-141 |
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Danish-Norwegian Protestantism
B renaissance tapestry B Ars moriendi B visual rhetoric B miles christianus |
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| Summary: | The article offers a close reading of a remarkable late 16-th century tapestry from Leksvik Church in Norway. Abounding with biblical quotations in Danish, the tapestry represents a dying man surrounded by personifications of virtues. The author considers this artifact a visualized ars moriendi , and shows how the tapestry’s iconography draws on standard metaphors from contemporary consolatory literature. Furthermore, the tapestry’s visual rhetoric alludes to, interplays with, and, at times, contradicts the late medieval conventions for visualizing the good death. By modulating a long-established deathbed iconography, the visual language of the Leksvik tapestry subtly steer towards a new, Protestant interpretation on the ideal death. |
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| ISSN: | 2196-6656 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Early Modern Christianity
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/jemc-2014-0003 |