Vision, devotion, and self-representation in late medieval art /
[Book]
Alexa Sand.
xv, 408 pages :
illustrations some color ;
26 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-397) and index.
Introduction: self-reflection, devotion, and vision in the image of the book owner at prayer -- Saving face: the Veronica and the Visio Dei -- From Memoria to Visio: revising the donor -- Framing vision: the image of the book owner and the reflexive mode of seeing -- Domesticating devotion: body, space, and self -- Conclusion: Power and the portrait: negotiating gender.
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"This book focuses on one of the most attractive yet poorly understood features of late-medieval manuscript illumination: the portrait of the book owner at prayer within the pages of her own prayer-book"--
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval-- England.
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval-- France.