Votive Panels and Popular Piety in Early Modern Italy

Votive Panels and Popular Piety in Early Modern Italy
Author: Fredrika H. Jacobs
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2013-10-07
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1107434165

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.

Catalogue

Catalogue
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1840
Release: 1937
Genre: Antiquarian booksellers
ISBN:

Galen on Bloodletting

Galen on Bloodletting
Author: Peter Brain
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 206
Release: 1986-08-07
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0521320852

Dr Brain has translated the works by the physician Galen on bloodletting, which provides by far the most comprehensive account of the practice in antiquity.