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Course Adoption. Contact Form. Manufacturer information: Koninklijke Brill B. Social Media Overview. General Resources. Terms and Conditions. Privacy Statement. Browse Our Titles. Login to my Brill account Create Brill Account. Editors: Stephen Perkinson. Noa Turel. Picturing Death: — explores the visual culture of mortality over the course of four centuries that witnessed a remarkable flourishing of imagery focused on the themes of death, dying, and the afterlife.
In doing so, this volume sheds light on issues that unite two periods—the Middle Ages and the Renaissance—that are often understood as diametrically opposed. The studies collected here cover a broad visual terrain, from tomb sculpture to painted altarpieces, from manuscripts to printed books, and from minute carved objects to large-scale architecture.
Taken together, they present a picture of the ways that images have helped humans understand their own mortality, and have incorporated the deceased into the communities of the living. Fleming, Fredrika Jacobs, Henrike C. Lange, Robert Marcoux, Walter S. Copyright Year: E-Book PDF. Login via Institution.
Prices from excl. View PDF Flyer. Contents About. Biographical Note Stephen Perkinson, Ph. Noa Turel, Ph. While interesting and useful on their own, the essays are best read in dialogue with one another; together, their insights shape a richer understanding of the broad cultural milieu. In: Renaissance Quarterly , Vol. Fleming Bibliography Index. Art historians concerned with the art of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, as well as cultural and literary historians interested in themes of mortality from those periods and more broadly.
