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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790616103321

Autore

Jacobs Fredrika Herman

Titolo

Votive panels and popular piety in early modern Italy / / Fredrika H. Jacobs, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-107-42411-9

1-139-89099-9

1-107-42188-8

1-107-41919-0

1-107-42043-1

1-139-14944-X

1-107-41654-X

1-107-41787-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 248 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

755/.20945

Soggetti

Votive offerings - Italy

Panel painting, Italian - 15th century

Panel painting, Italian - 16th century

Christian art and symbolism - Italy - Modern period, 1500-

Christianity and culture - Italy - History - 16th century

Art and popular culture - Italy - History - 16th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.