ISBN: 9781107098510 - a printed icon in early modern italy: forlì's madonna of the fire (2 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. Lisa Pon examines the cultural biography of the city of Forli's miraculous woodcut, the Madonna of the Fire. Num Pages: 301 pages, 99 b/w illus. 4 colour illus. 1 map. BIC Classification: ACND; AFKC; AGR. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 264 x 186 x 24. Weight in Grams: 852. . 2015. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - In 1428, a devastating fire destroyed a schoolhouse in the northern Italian city of Forlì, leaving only a woodcut of the Madonna and Child that had been tacked to the classroom wall. The people of Forlì carried that print - now known as the Madonna of the Fire - into their cathedral, where two centuries later a new chapel was built to enshrine it. In this book, Lisa Pon considers a cascade of moments in the Madonna of the Fire's cultural biography: when ink was impressed onto paper at a now-unknown date; when that sheet was recognized by Forlì's people as miraculous; when it was enshrined in various tabernacles and chapels in the cathedral; when it or one of its copies was - and still is - carried in procession. In doing so, Pon offers an experiment in art historical inquiry that spans more than three centuries of making, remaking, and renewal.…