Saints, Miracles, and Social Problems in Italian Renaissance Art

Saints, Miracles, and Social Problems in Italian Renaissance Art

by Diana Bullen Presciutti
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 09/05/2025

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In this book, Diana Bullen Presciutti explores how images of miracles performed by mendicant saints-reviving dead children, redeeming the unjustly convicted, mending broken marriages, quelling factional violence, exorcising the demonically possessed-actively shaped Renaissance Italians' perceptions of pressing social problems related to gender, sexuality, and honor. She argues that depictions of these miracles by artists-both famous (Donatello, Titian) and anonymous-played a critical role in defining and conceptualizing threats to family honor and social stability. Drawing from art history, history, religious studies, gender studies, and sociology, Presciutti's interdisciplinary study reveals how miracle scenes-whether painted, sculpted, or printed-operated as active agents of 'lived religion' and social negotiation in the spaces of the Renaissance Italian city.

ISBN:
9781009300841
9781009300841
Category:
The arts
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
09-05-2025
Language:
English
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press

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