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OverviewExamining innovations in Mary Magdalene imagery in northern art 1430 to 1550, Penny Jolly explores how the saint’s widespread popularity drew upon her ability to embody oppositions and embrace a range of paradoxical roles: sinner-prostitute and saint, erotic seductress and holy prophet. Analyzing paintings by Rogier van der Weyden, Quentin Massys, and others, Jolly investigates artists’ and audiences’ responses to increasing religious tensions, expanding art markets, and changing roles for women. Using cultural ideas concerning the gendered and pregnant body, Jolly reveals how dress confirms the Magdalene’s multivalent nature. In some paintings, her gown’s opening laces betray her wantonness yet simultaneously mark her as Christ’s spiritually pregnant Bride; elsewhere ’undress’ reconfirms her erotic nature while paradoxically marking her penitence; in still other works, exotic finery expresses her sanctity while celebrating Antwerp’s textile industry. New image types arise, as when the saint appears as a lovesick musician playing a lute or as a melancholic contemplative, longing for Christ. Some depictions emphasize her intercessory role through innovative pictorial strategies that invite performative viewing or relate her to the mythological Pandora and Italian Renaissance Neoplatonism. Throughout, the Magdalene’s ambiguities destabilize readings of her imagery while engaging audiences across a broad social and religious spectrum. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Penny Howell Jolly , Professor Allyson M. Poska , Professor Abby ZangerPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.771kg ISBN: 9781472414953ISBN 10: 1472414950 Pages: 190 Publication Date: 01 January 2014 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations, Preface and Acknowledgements, Introduction, 1. The “Pregnant” Magdalene, Bride of Christ: Rogier van der Weyden’s Descent from the Cross, 2. The Wise and Foolish Magdalene: Rogier van der Weyden’s Braque Triptych, 3. The Engaging Magdalene: Quentin Massys’ Mary Magdalene Opening her Jar, 4. The Lovesick Magdalene: the Master of the Female Half-lengths and Jan van Hemessen’s Musical Magdalenes, 5. The Melancholic Magdalene: Adriaen Isenbrant and the Master of the Female Half-lengths’ Landscape Magdalenes, Conclusion, Bibliography, IndexReviewsPenny Howell Jolly brilliantly expands on recent research on the history of dress, performance, and sexuality, to explore how ideas associated with the female body of Mary Magdalen, such as its permeability and instability, were expressed visually through a series of symbolic signs and acts that offer her process of transformation from sinner to saint as a model that could be emulated by ordinary Christians. With a sharp eye and a thorough understanding of the rich and complex cult of the Magdalen, Jolly analyzes visual imagery to successfully explain the broad appeal of the Magdalen, a prostitute who became a saint.'-Diane Wolfthal, Rice University Author InformationPenny Howell Jolly is Professor of Art History at Skidmore College, USA. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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