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Images of Plague and Pestilence

Iconography and Iconology

By: Christine M. Boeckl

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Images of Plague and Pestilence

Iconography and Iconology

By: Christine M. Boeckl

Since the late fourteenth century, European artists created an extensive body of images, in paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, and other media, about the horrors of disease and death, as well as hope and salvation. This interdisciplinary study on disease in metaphysical context is the first general overview of plague art written from an art-historical standpoint. The book selects masterpieces created by Raphael, Titian, Tintoretto, Rubens, Van Dyck, and Poussin, and includes minor works dating from the fourteenth to twentieth centuries. It highlights the most important innovative artistic works that originated during the Renaissance and the Catholic Reformation. This study of the changing iconographic patterns and their iconological interpretations opens a window to the past.

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Penn State Press

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0271091185

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9780271091181

Images of Leprosy

Disease, Religion, and Politics in European Art

By: Christine M. Boeckl

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Images of Leprosy

Disease, Religion, and Politics in European Art

By: Christine M. Boeckl

From biblical times to the onset of the Black Death in the fourteenth century, leprosy was considered the worst human affliction, both medically and socially. Only fifty years ago, leprosy, or Hansen’s disease, was an incurable infectious illness, and it still remains a grave global concern. Recently, leprosy has generated attention in scholarly fields from medical science to the visual arts. This interdisciplinary art-historical survey on lepra and its visualization in sculpture, murals, stained glass, and other media provides new information on the history of art, medicine, religion, and European society. Christine M. Boeckl maintains that the various terrifying aspects of the disease dominated the visual narratives of historic and legendary figures stricken with leprosy. For rulers, beggars, saints, and sinners, the metaphor of leprosy becomes the background against which their captivating stories are projected.

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Penn State Press

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027109124X

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9780271091242

Images of Plague and Pestilence

Iconography and Iconology

By: Christine M. Boeckl

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Iconography and Iconology

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Images of Leprosy

Disease, Religion, and Politics in European Art

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Images of Leprosy

Disease, Religion, and Politics in European Art

By: Christine M. Boeckl

From biblical times to the onset of the Black Death in the fourteenth century, leprosy was considered the worst human affliction, both medically and socially. Only fifty years ago, leprosy, or Hansen's disease, was an incurable infectious illness, and it still remains a grave global concern. Recently, leprosy has generated attention in scholarly fields from medical science to the visual arts. This interdisciplinary art-historical survey on lepra and its visualization in sculpture, murals, stained glass, and other media provides new information on the history of art, medicine, religion, and European society. Christine M. Boeckl maintains that the various terrifying aspects of the disease dominated the visual narratives of historic and legendary figures stricken with leprosy. For rulers, beggars, saints, and sinners, the metaphor of leprosy becomes the background against which their captivating stories are projected.

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Truman State Univ Press

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1935503146

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9781935503149

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Images of Plague and Pestilence

Images of Plague and Pestilence

Images of Leprosy

Images of Leprosy

Images of Plague and Pestilence

Images of Plague and Pestilence

Images of Leprosy

Images of Leprosy

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