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. |
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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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.