Votive panels and popular piety in early modern Italy / Fredrika H. Jacobs, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond.
2013
ND1432.I82 J33 2013
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Votive panels and popular piety in early modern Italy / Fredrika H. Jacobs, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond.
Author
Jacobs, Fredrika Herman.
ISBN
9781107023048
9781107420434 (electronic book)
9781107420434 (electronic book)
Published
New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (274 pages) : illustrations
Call Number
ND1432.I82 J33 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification
755/.20945
Summary
"In the late fifteenth century, votive panel paintings, or tavolette votive, began to accumulate around reliquary shrines and miracle-working images throughout Italy. Although often dismissed as popular art of little aesthetic consequence, more than 1,500 panels from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries are extant, a testimony to their ubiquity and importance in religious practice. Humble in both their materiality and style, they represent donors in prayer and supplicants petitioning a saint at a dramatic moment of crisis. In this book, Fredrika H. Jacobs traces the origins and development of the use of votive panels in this period. She examines the form, context and functional value of votive panels, and considers how they created meaning for the person who dedicated them as well as how they accrued meaning in relationship to other images and objects within a sacred space activated by practices of cultic culture"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Machine generated contents note: 1. Dialogues of devotion: an introduction; 2. Tavolette votive: form, function, context; 3. Determining functional value: attestations of fact and faith; 4. Narrative modes; 5. Signs of faith, signs of superstition.