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Author:   Steven F.H. Stowell
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   186
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.780kg
ISBN:  

9789004283916

ISBN 10:   9004283919
Pages:   408
Publication Date:   14 November 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Introduction Chapter One Art and Compunction: Francesco Bocchi's Mystical Experience of Art Compunction in Renaissance Literature on Art Compunction and Popular Devotion at the Santissima Annunziata in Florence Francesco Bocchi's Ekphrasis, Catharsis and Compunction Purging and Nourishing Chapter Two Leon Battista Alberti's 'De pictura' and the Christian Tradition of the Liberal Arts An Image Formed in the Mind and an Imitation of Nature The Liberal Arts in Alberti and the Christian Tradition Study and Composition: Painting as a Form of Meditation A Part and a Whole: Alberti's Beauty Chapter Three The Word of God and the Book of the World in the Writings of Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo as a Reader of Spiritual Literature Tears and Laughter in Leonardo The World is a Book Judgment and Love: Ogni Dipintore Dipinge Se In One Instant Alone Chapter Four: Part One Imagining the Souls of Holy People Lifting the Veil of the Body The Soul of a Work of Art: The Agency of Sacred Art The Sweetness of Honey: Painted Flesh, Veils and Interiority Perfection of Body and Soul: The Souls of Artists and of Paintings Chapter Four: Part Two The Impossibility of Picturing Virtue: The Face as a Natural Sign The 'Costume' of Virtue, Seeing Beneath the Veil and Francesco Bocchi Chapter Five Invention and Amplification: Imagining Sacred History Gabriele Paleotti's Theory of Sacred Art and Contemplative Ascent How Images are Like Scripture and Like Sermons in Paleotti's 'Discorso' Rhetoric, Reading and Remembering in Pictorial Invention The Circumstances of Sacred History From History of Allegory in Sacred Art Chapter Six Vasari's City of God: Spirituality, Art and Architecture in Vasari's 'Lives' and 'Ragionamenti' Spirituality in Vasari's Literary Context The Stones of Memory in the Palazzo Vecchio The Architecture of Allegory in Vasari and Hugh of St. Victor The Time of Allegory and the Space of History Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Steven Stowell is an assistant professor of Art History at Concordia University in Montreal. He received his doctorate from Oxford University in 2009, and previously held a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Toronto. He has published research in the journals Dante Studies, and Word & Image.

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