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Picturing Death 1200â1600
Series: - Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, Volume: 321/50
- Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History, Volume: 321/50
Picturing Death: 1200â1600 explores the visual culture of mortality over the course of four centuries that witnessed a remarkable flourishing of imagery focused on the themes of death, dying, and the afterlife. In doing so, this volume sheds light on issues that unite two periodsâthe Middle Ages and the Renaissanceâthat are often understood as diametrically opposed. The studies collected here cover a broad visual terrain, from tomb sculpture to painted altarpieces, from manuscripts to printed books, and from minute carved objects to large-scale architecture. Taken together, they present a picture of the ways that images have helped humans understand their own mortality, and have incorporated the deceased into the communities of the living.
Contributors: Jessica Barker, Katherine Boivin, Peter Bovenmyer, Xavier Dectot, Maja Dujakovic, Brigit Ferguson, Alison C. Fleming, Fredrika Jacobs, Henrike C. Lange, Robert Marcoux, Walter S. Melion, Stephen Perkinson, Johanna Scheel, Mary Silcox, Judith Steinhoff, and Noa Turel.
Contributors: Jessica Barker, Katherine Boivin, Peter Bovenmyer, Xavier Dectot, Maja Dujakovic, Brigit Ferguson, Alison C. Fleming, Fredrika Jacobs, Henrike C. Lange, Robert Marcoux, Walter S. Melion, Stephen Perkinson, Johanna Scheel, Mary Silcox, Judith Steinhoff, and Noa Turel.
Stephen Perkinson, Ph.D. (1998, Northwestern University), is Professor of Art History and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Bowdoin College. He is the author of The Likeness of the King (Chicago, 2009) and The Ivory Mirror (Yale, 2017).
Noa Turel, Ph.D. (2012, University of California, Santa Barbara), is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She is the author of Living Pictures: Jan van Eyck and Paintingâs First Century (Yale, 2020).
Noa Turel, Ph.D. (2012, University of California, Santa Barbara), is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She is the author of Living Pictures: Jan van Eyck and Paintingâs First Century (Yale, 2020).
"The relative brevity of the essays makes them straightforward and easy to read, and thus of value to students (including graduates and advanced undergraduates) as well as specialists of the related fields. While interesting and useful on their own, the essays are best read in dialogue with one another; together, their insights shape a richer understanding of the broad cultural milieu." - Catherine OâReilly, Boston University, in: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 77, No. 1 (Spring 2024), pp. 266â267
List of Illustrations
Introduction
âStephen Perkinson and Noa Turel
1 Looking beyond the Face: Tomb Effigies and the Medieval Commemoration of the Dead
âRobert Marcoux
2 Portraiture, Projection, Perfection: The Multiple Effigies of Enrico Scrovegni
âHenrike Christiane Lange
3 Plorans ploravit in nocte: The Birth of the Figure of the Pleurant in Tomb Sculpture
âXavier Dectot
4 Gendering Prayer in Trecento Florence: Tomb Paintings in Santa Croce and San Remigio
âJudith Steinhoff
5 Two-Story Charnel-House Chapels and the Space of Death in the Medieval City
âKatherine M. Boivin
6 The Living Dead and the Joy of the Crucifixion
âBrigit G. Ferguson
7 The Speaking Tomb: Ventriloquizing the Voices of the Dead
âJessica Barker
8 Feeding Worms: The Theological Paradox of the Decaying Body and Its Depictions in the Context of Prayer and Devotion
âJohanna Scheel
9 Not Quite Dead: Imaging the Miracle of Infant Resuscitation
âFredrika H. Jacobs
10 Dissecting for the King: Guido da Vigevano and the Anatomy of Death
âPeter Bovenmyer
11 Covert Apotheoses: Archbishop Henry Chicheleâs Tomb and the Vocational Logic of Early Transis
âNoa Turel
12 Into Print: Early Illustrated Books and the Reframing of the Danse Macabre
âMaja Dujakovic
13 Death Commodified: Macabre Imagery on Luxury Objects, c. 1500
âStephen Perkinson
14 Coemeterium Schola: The Emblematic Imagery of Death in Jan Davidâs Veridicus Christianus
âWalter S. Melion
15 A Protestant Reconceptualization of Images of Death and the Afterlife in Stephen Batemanâs A Christall Glasse
âMary V. Silcox
16 Shifting Role Models within the Society of Jesus: The Abandonment of Grisly Martyrdom Images c. 1600
âAlison C. Fleming
Bibliography
Index
Introduction
âStephen Perkinson and Noa Turel
part 1: Housing the Dead
1 Looking beyond the Face: Tomb Effigies and the Medieval Commemoration of the Dead
âRobert Marcoux
2 Portraiture, Projection, Perfection: The Multiple Effigies of Enrico Scrovegni
âHenrike Christiane Lange
3 Plorans ploravit in nocte: The Birth of the Figure of the Pleurant in Tomb Sculpture
âXavier Dectot
4 Gendering Prayer in Trecento Florence: Tomb Paintings in Santa Croce and San Remigio
âJudith Steinhoff
5 Two-Story Charnel-House Chapels and the Space of Death in the Medieval City
âKatherine M. Boivin
part 2: Mortal Anxieties and Living Paradoxes
6 The Living Dead and the Joy of the Crucifixion
âBrigit G. Ferguson
7 The Speaking Tomb: Ventriloquizing the Voices of the Dead
âJessica Barker
8 Feeding Worms: The Theological Paradox of the Decaying Body and Its Depictions in the Context of Prayer and Devotion
âJohanna Scheel
9 Not Quite Dead: Imaging the Miracle of Infant Resuscitation
âFredrika H. Jacobs
part 3: The Macabre, Instrumentalized
10 Dissecting for the King: Guido da Vigevano and the Anatomy of Death
âPeter Bovenmyer
11 Covert Apotheoses: Archbishop Henry Chicheleâs Tomb and the Vocational Logic of Early Transis
âNoa Turel
12 Into Print: Early Illustrated Books and the Reframing of the Danse Macabre
âMaja Dujakovic
13 Death Commodified: Macabre Imagery on Luxury Objects, c. 1500
âStephen Perkinson
part 4: Departure and Persistence
14 Coemeterium Schola: The Emblematic Imagery of Death in Jan Davidâs Veridicus Christianus
âWalter S. Melion
15 A Protestant Reconceptualization of Images of Death and the Afterlife in Stephen Batemanâs A Christall Glasse
âMary V. Silcox
16 Shifting Role Models within the Society of Jesus: The Abandonment of Grisly Martyrdom Images c. 1600
âAlison C. Fleming
Bibliography
Index
Art historians concerned with the art of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, as well as cultural and literary historians interested in themes of mortality from those periods and more broadly. Keywords: medieval, Renaissance, tomb sculpture, 1200â1600, Dance of Death, macabre, funerary architecture, memento mori, death, transi tomb, cadaver tomb, ossuary, Reformation, salvation, purgatory, miracles.