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Death, torture and the broken body in European art, 1300-1650

Death, torture and the broken body in European art, 1300-1650
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ISBN 147243367X (hbk.)
9781472433671 (hbk.)
Title Death, torture and the broken body in European art, 1300-1650 / edited by John R. Decker and Mitzi Kirkland-Ives
Publisher Farnham, UK ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2015
Physical desc. xiv, 264 p. ; ill. (b&w) ; 26 cm.
Series Visual culture in early modernity
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-259) and index.
Contents Spectacular unmaking: creative destruction, destructive creativity / John R. Decker -- Pt. 1: Holy violence, the creation of martyrs. Guido da Siena and the four modes of violence / Assaf Pinkus -- The suffering Christ and visual mnemonics in Netherlandish devotions / Mitzi Kirkland-Ives -- A chopped-off head on a golden plate : Jan Mostaert’s Head of Saint John the Baptist on a plate surrounded by angels / Soetkin Vanhauwaert -- Reviving martyrdom: interpretations of the catacombs in Cesare Baronio’s patronage / Kelley Magill -- The authorizations of torture: John Bale writing Anne Askew / Natalia Khomenko -- Pt. 2: Social violence, the creation of civic identities. Killing and dying at the Death of Decius Mus / Renzo Baldasso -- Dracula, the Turks and the rhetoric of impaling in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Germany / Heather Madar -- Execution by image: visual spectacularism and iconoclasm in late medieval and early modern Europe / Allie Terry-Fritsch -- A shameful spectacle: Claes Jansz. Visscher’s 1623 news prints of executed Dutch ’Arminians’ / Maureen Warren -- Closing thoughts / John R. Decker.
Subject Death in art
Torture in art
Wounds and injuries in art
Human beings in art
Art, European
Art and society -- Europe
Added name(s) Decker, John R. 1968- ed.
Kirkland-Ives, Mitzi ed.
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