Picturing Death 1200–1600

✍ Scribed by Stephen Perkinson, Noa Turel

• Publisher: BRILL
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 475
• Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History; 321
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Picturing Death: 1200–1600 brings together essays considering four key centuries of imagery related to human mortality, from tomb sculpture to painted altarpieces, from manuscripts to printed books, and from minute carved objects to large-scale architecture.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Illustrations
Introduction
Part 1 Housing the Dead
Chapter 1 Looking beyond the Face: Tomb Effigies and theMedieval Commemoration of the Dead
Chapter 2 Portraiture, Projection, Perfection: The Multiple Effigies of Enrico Scrovegni
Chapter 3 Plorans ploravit in nocte: The Birth of the Figure of the Pleurant in Tomb Sculpture
Chapter 4 Gendering Prayer in Trecento Florence: Tomb Paintings in Santa Croce and San Remigio
Chapter 5 Two-Story Charnel-House Chapels and the Space of Death in the Medieval City
Part 2 Mortal Anxieties and Living Paradoxes
Chapter 6 The Living Dead and the Joy of the Crucifixion
Chapter 7 The Speaking Tomb: Ventriloquizing the Voicesof the Dead
Chapter 8 Feeding Worms: The Theological Paradox of the Decaying Body and Its Depictions in the Context of Prayer and Devotion
Chapter 9 Not Quite Dead: Imaging the Miracle of Infant Resuscitation
Part 3 The Macabre, Instrumentalized
Chapter 10 Dissecting for the King: Guido da Vigevano and the Anatomy of Death
Chapter 11 Covert Apotheoses: Archbishop Henry Chichele’s Tomb and the Vocational Logic of Early Transis
Chapter 12 Into Print: Early Illustrated Books and the Reframing of the Danse Macabre
Chapter 13 Death Commodified: Macabre Imagery on Luxury Objects, c. 1500
Part 4 Departure and Persistence
Chapter 14 Coemeterium Schola: The Emblematic Imagery of Death in Jan David’s Veridicus Christianus
Chapter 15 A Protestant Reconceptualization of Images of Death and the Afterlife in Stephen Bateman’s A Christall Glasse
Chapter 16 Shifting Role Models within the Society of Jesus: The Abandonment of Grisly Martyrdom Images c. 1600
Bibliography
Index