Votive panels and popular piety in early modern Italy /
General Material Designation
[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
Fredrika H. Jacobs, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xiii, 248 pages :
Other Physical Details
illustrations (some color) ;
Dimensions
26 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-244) and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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I. Dialogues of devotion: an introduction -- II. Tavolette votive: form, function, context -- III. Determining functional value: attestations of fact and faith -- IV. Narrative modes -- V. Signs of faith, signs of superstition
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"In the late fifteenth century, votive panel paintings, or tavolette votive, began to accumulate around reliquary shrines and miracle-working images throughout Italy. Although often dismissed as popular art of little aesthetic consequence, more than 1,500 panels from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries are extant, a testimony to their ubiquity and importance in religious practice. Humble in both their materiality and style, they represent donors in prayer and supplicants petitioning a saint at a dramatic moment of crisis. In this book, Fredrika H. Jacobs traces the origins and development of the use of votive panels in this period. She examines the form, context and functional value of votive panels, and considers how they created meaning for the person who dedicated them as well as how they accrued meaning in relationship to other images and objects within a sacred space activated by practices of cultic culture"--
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Art and popular culture-- Italy-- History-- 16th century
Christian art and symbolism-- Italy-- Modern period, 1500-
Christianity and culture-- Italy-- History-- 16th century