[PDF] Fifteenth Century Pilgrimage Paintings eBook

Author : Robert Maniura
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 10,26 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781843830559

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A case study of the meaning and purpose of pilgrimage, based on the image of the 'scarred Virgin', Our Lady of Czestochowa. The tradition of pilgrimage to an image is so well-established as to be taken for granted. Throughout Christian history large numbers of people have made journeys to images associated with miracles, yet the phenomenon has never been a subject of detailed scholarly scrutiny. This book explores the issue through a case study of the origins of pilgrimage to one such image, Our Lady of Czestochowa in Poland. The shrine remains one of the most prominent pilgrimage destinations in the Catholic world: the striking focal panel painting shows the Virgin Mary with an apparently scarred face, and the legend of the picture's origin claims that it was painted by St Luke and desecrated by iconoclasts. The author assesses the significance of the stories attached to the shrine, and goes beyond them to consider the practices and responses of the pilgrims. Drawing on the earliest surviving miracle collections, he also explores the interaction between the pilgrims and the image of the 'scarred' Virgin. ROBERT MANIURA is Lecturer in the History of Renaissance Art, Birkbeck College, University of London.

Author : Véronique Plesch
Publisher :
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 44,34 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN :

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Giovanni Canavesio, an artist-priest active in the last decades of thefifteenth century in the Southern Alps, left behind a significant body ofwork, including pictorial cycles and altarpieces. This book is anin-depth analysis of his cycle on the Passion of Christ, completed in1492 on the walls of the pilgrimage sanctuary of Notre-Dame desFontaines, outside the southern French town of La Brigue. VeroniquePlesch provides a detailed analysis of Canavesio's complex andpowerful Passion cycle - the formal means he used to convey content, the significance of the order of scenes, the iconography of depictions, the textual insertions of speech-scrolls and labels in the paintings, andthe relationship of the painted ensemble with preachin

Author : Kathryn Blair Moore
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 37,56 MB
Release : 2017-02-27
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1107139082

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Moore traces and re-interprets the significance of the architecture of the Christian Holy Land within changing religious and political contexts.

Author : Linda Kay Davidson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 40,96 MB
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1136514767

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Nine new studies address the phenomenon of the medieval pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, the legendary burying place of St. James.

Author : Mark Byford
Publisher :
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 29,37 MB
Release : 2018-03-25
Category :
ISBN : 9781906113254

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Mark Byford's 'The Annunciation: A Pilgrim's Quest' explores through conversations with clerics, theologians, historians and laypersons the encounter between the angel Gabriel and the Virgin Mary, a meeting that may be a pivotal point in Christianity. Has the status and significance of the Annunciation been lost in today's world?

Author : Diana Webb
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 15,87 MB
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1403913803

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Medieval pilgrimage was, above all, an expression of religious faith, but this was not its only aspect. Men and women of all classes went on pilgrimage for a variety of reasons, sometimes by choice, sometimes involuntarily. They made both long and short journeys: to Rome, Jerusalem and Santiago on the one hand; to innumerable local shrines on the other. The routes that they followed by land and water made up a complex web which covered the face of Europe, and their travels required a range of support services, including the protection of rulers (who were themselves often pilgrims). Pilgrimage left its mark not only on the landscape but also on the art and literature of Europe. Diana Webb's engaging book offers the reader a fresh introduction to the history of European Christian pilgrimage in the twelve hundred years between the conversion of Emperor Constantine and the beginnings of the Protestant Reformation. As well as exploring this multi-faceted activity, it considers both the geography of pilgrimage and its significant cultural legacy.

Author : Jennie Stopford
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 22,18 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9780952973430

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The history and underlying ideology of pilgrimage examined, from prehistory to the middle ages. The enduring importance of pilgrimage as an expression of human longing is explored in this volume through three major themes: the antiquity of pilgrimage in what became the Christian world; the mechanisms of Christian pilgrimage(particularly in relation to the practicalities of the journey and the workings of the shrine); and the fluidity and adaptability of pilgrimage ideology. In their examination of pilgrimage as part of western culture from neolithictimes onwards, the authors make use of a range of approaches, often combining evidence from a number of sources, including anthropology, archaeology, history, folklore, margin illustrations and wall paintings; they suggest that it is the fluidity of pilgrimage ideology, combined with an adherence to supposedly traditional physical observances, which has succeeded in maintaining its relevance and retaining its identity. They also look at the ways in whichpilgrimage spilled into, or rather was part of, secular life in the middle ages. Dr JENNIE STOPFORD teaches in the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York. Contributors: RICHARD BRADLEY, E.D. HUNT, JULIEANN SMITH, SIMON BARTON, WENDY R. CHILDS, BEN NILSON, KATHERINE J. LEWIS, DEBRA J. BIRCH, SIMON COLEMAN, JOHN ELSNER, A. M. KOLDEWEIJ.