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Title:

Death, torture and the broken body in European art, 1300-1650 / edited by John R. Decker and Mitzi Kirkland-Ives.

Publisher:

Ashgate,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

xiv, 264 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Death in art.
Torture in art.
Wounds and injuries in art.
Human beings in art.
Art, European.
Art and society--Europe.
Art and society.
Art, European.
Death in art.
Human beings in art.
Torture in art.
Wounds and injuries in art.
Europe.

Other Authors:

Decker, John R., 1968- editor.
Kirkland-Ives, Mitzi, editor.
Decker, John R., 1968- author. Spectacular unmaking.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Spectacular unmaking: creative destruction, destructive creativity / John R. Decker -- 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 -- 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.

Series:

Visual culture in early modernity

ISBN:

147243367X (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781472433671 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)879552961

LCCN:

2014016693

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)