Esperienze e interpretazioni della morte tra Medioevo e Rinascimento
| Title in English | Experiences and interpretations of death between Middle Ages and Renaissance |
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| Year of publication | 2020 |
| Type | Editorship of scientific publication |
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| Description | The centuries between the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance manifest the passage from the pre-modern to the modern conception of death. For the study of aesthetics and history of art, these centuries constitute a fertile laboratory, within which the contributions of this volume are placed. A new reading of some theoretical nodes of Erwin Panofsky's writing on the imago pietatis is accompanied by an examination of the problem of representation and of the representation of the ex-votos; this is followed by a study on the relationship between body and image in the lids and fronts of the holy boxes and by an investigation on the "laboratory" of images that led to the birth of Purgatory as a "third place". Afterwards, some more exquisitely iconographic studies are presented, concerning the illustrations of the Tractatus artis bene moriendi, from the fifteenth century, the representations of the Apocalypse in the miniatures of the Beatos, manuscripts made between the ninth and thirteenth centuries, the image of the Meeting of the three living and the three dead in its rendering in a fourteenth-century pictorial cycle in Sardinia, and finally the analysis of some thirteenth-century thuribles used for incensing in the funeral liturgy. |