Become a Readings Member to make your shopping experience even easier. Sign in or sign up for free!

Become a Readings Member. Sign in or sign up for free!

Hello Readings Member! Go to the member centre to view your orders, change your details, or view your lists, or sign out.

Hello Readings Member! Go to the member centre or sign out.

Worlds Within: Opening the Medieval Shrine Madonna
Hardback

Worlds Within: Opening the Medieval Shrine Madonna

$403.99
Sign in or become a Readings Member to add this title to your wishlist.

In Worlds Within, Elina Gertsman investigates the Shrine Madonnas, or Vierges ouvrantes-sculptures that conceal within their bodies complex carved and/or painted iconographies. The Shrine Madonna emerged in Europe at the end of the 1200s and reached a peak of popularity during the following three centuries. Gertsman argues that the appearance of these objects-predicated as they are on the dynamic of concealment, revelation, and fragmentation-points to the changing roles of vision and sensation in the complex, performative ways in which audiences were expected to engage with devotional images, both in public and in private. Worlds Within considers these fascinating sculptures in terms of the rhetoric of secrecy, the discourse of containment, and the tropes of unveiling. Gertsman demonstrates how the statues were associated with the processes of seeing and memory-making and how they functioned as instruments of revelatory knowledge and spiritual reformation in the context of late medieval European culture.

Read More
In Shop
Out of stock
Shipping & Delivery

$9.00 standard shipping within Australia
FREE standard shipping within Australia for orders over $100.00
Express & International shipping calculated at checkout

MORE INFO
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press
Country
United States
Date
9 April 2015
Pages
288
ISBN
9780271064017

In Worlds Within, Elina Gertsman investigates the Shrine Madonnas, or Vierges ouvrantes-sculptures that conceal within their bodies complex carved and/or painted iconographies. The Shrine Madonna emerged in Europe at the end of the 1200s and reached a peak of popularity during the following three centuries. Gertsman argues that the appearance of these objects-predicated as they are on the dynamic of concealment, revelation, and fragmentation-points to the changing roles of vision and sensation in the complex, performative ways in which audiences were expected to engage with devotional images, both in public and in private. Worlds Within considers these fascinating sculptures in terms of the rhetoric of secrecy, the discourse of containment, and the tropes of unveiling. Gertsman demonstrates how the statues were associated with the processes of seeing and memory-making and how they functioned as instruments of revelatory knowledge and spiritual reformation in the context of late medieval European culture.

Read More
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press
Country
United States
Date
9 April 2015
Pages
288
ISBN
9780271064017