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Vision, devotion, and self-representation in late medieval art /

"This book focuses on one of the most attractive yet poorly understood features of late-medieval manuscript illumination: the portrait of the book owner at prayer within the pages of her own prayer-book"--

Main Author: Sand, Alexa Kristen.
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: Introduction: self-reflection, devotion, and vision in the image of the book owner at prayer; 1. Saving face: the Veronica and the Visio Dei; 2. From Memoria to Visio: revising the donor; 3. Framing vision: the image of the book owner and the reflexive mode of seeing; 4. Domesticating devotion: body, space, and self; 5. Power and the portrait: negotiating gender.