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Meditationes Vitae Christi Reconsidered. New Perspectives on Text and Image
, Brepols, 2021 Hardback, 252 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:150 col., Language(s):English. ISBN 9782503595054.
Summary Drawing on diverse literary traditions, the author of the fourteenth-century Meditationes Vitae Christi transformed the Gospel accounts into an emotionally charged and vivid narrative that became one of the most popular texts of the late Middle Ages. Over the past few years, new theories about the authorship, date, and original language of the text have emerged, raising new questions about this text and its impact on late medieval art and spirituality. The essays in this interdisciplinary volume examine multiple aspects of the Meditationes history, from its possible authorship to its manuscript traditions to its reflections in art. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction - Holly Flora, Tulane University, and Peter Tóth, British Library Fra Jacopo in the Archives: San Gimignano as a Context for the Meditations on the Life of Christ - Donal Cooper, University of Cambridge The Earliest Reference to the Meditationes Vitae Christi: New Evidence for its Date, Authorship, and Language - Peter Tóth, British Library Contemplation in the French and Occitan Versions of the Meditationes Vitae Christi - Maureen Boulton, University of Notre Dame The Italian Text of the Paris Manuscript of the Meditationes: Historigraphic Remarks and Further Perspectives - David Falvay, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest Reading the Meditationes on the Mount of Light, Perugia - Renana Bartal, Tel Aviv University Feast, Fast, and the Feminine: Women at the Table in the Illustrated Meditationes - Holly Flora, Tulane University Meditations for a Married Man: The Snite MVC and the Elite Urban Male Reader - Dianne Phillips, Independent Scholar A Newly Discovered Illuminated Manuscript of the Meditationes vitae Christi Produced in Fifteenth-Century Veneto (Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, MS Reg. Lat. 478) - Lisandra Costiner, University of Oxford The Writer as Viewer: Recollecting Art in the Text of the Meditationes vitae Christi - Joanna Cannon, Courtauld Institute of Art Mixed Media: Questioning Format in Late Medieval Pictorial Vita Christi Cycles - Lynn Ransom, Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Cimabue and the Franciscans
, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2018 Hardcover with dust jacket, IV+287 pages ., 4 b/w ill. + 192 colour ill., 225 x 300 mm, Language: English. ISBN 9781912554010.
Cimabue and the Franciscans sheds new light on the legendary artist Cimabue, revealing his sophisticated engagement with complicated intellectual and theological ideas about materials, memory, beauty, and experience. This book offers a fresh look at the broader question of artistic change in the late thirteenth century by examining the intersection of two histories: that of the artist Cimabue (ca. 1240-1302), and that of the Franciscan Order. While focused on the work of a single artist, this study sheds new light on the religious motives and artistic means that fueled the period?s visual and spiritual transformations. Flora?s study reveals that Cimabue was not just a crucial figure in processes of stylistic change. He and his Franciscan patrons engaged with complicated intellectual and theological ideas about materials, memory, beauty, and experience, creating innovative works of art that celebrated the Order and enabled new modes of Christian devotion. Cimabue?s contributions to the history of art thus can finally be recognized for their wide-ranging scope and impact within the rapidly-evolving religious culture of the late thirteenth century. Holly Flora is Associate Professor of Art History at Tulane University. A specialist in Italian art of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, she is the author of The Devout Belief of the Imagination: the Paris Meditationes Vitae Christi and Female Franciscan Spirituality in Trecento Italy (Brepols, 2009), as well as articles in Art History, Gesta, and Studies in Iconography. She is a recent recipient of the Rome Prize (2010-11) and a fellowship at Villa I Tatti (2015-16).
Art and Experience in Trecento Italy
, Brepols, 2019 Hardback, 347 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:34 b/w, 146 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503581958.
Summary The age of Giotto, Dante, and Boccaccio, the fourteenth century in Italy, known as the trecento, was a pivotal moment in art history and in European culture. The studies in this volume present new approaches to art in this important but often neglected period of the early Renaissance. Scholars at various stages in their careers discuss a wide range of topics including architecture, materiality, politics, patronage, and devotion, contributing to a new understanding of how art was made and experienced in this nodal century. These papers were originally presented at the Andrew Ladis Trecento Conference held at Tulane University in November of 2016. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction - Holly Flora and Sarah S. Wilkins Dante and the Moment of Florentine Art - Marvin Trachtenberg I. Media and Materiality Networks and Materials: Italian Stained-Glass Windows c. 1280-1400 - Nancy M. Thompson Studying Drawings of the Italian Trecento - Giada Damen II. Likeness and Beauty 'I, Porrina': A Hyper-Realistic Portrait in the Collegiata of Casole d'Elsa - Laura Jacobus Beyond Blood: The Crucifixus Dolorosus and the Beauty of Christ - Meredith Raucher Sisson III. Building and Identity The Ponte Vecchio as a Public Good: Civic Architecture and Civil Conflict in Trecento Florence - Theresa Flanigan Roman Versus Gothic in Trecento Architecture - Erik Gustafson Before Palazzo Medici: Earlier Domestic Traditions Shaping the Renaissance Palace in Florence, 1380-1420 - Lorenzo Vigotti IV. Artists and Altarpieces Partisan Politics and Giotto's Ognissanti Madonna: Making Invisible Allegiances Visible - Jill Harrison From Giotto to Masaccio and Masolino: Reflections on Two Double-sided Polyptychs in Rome - Damien Cerutti V. Rivalry and Replication The 'Tabernacles' War', c. 1367-1377: Civic versus Papal Authority in Popular-Regime Rome - Claudia Bolgia Simone Martini's Design of the Prototype for the Patron Saints' Altarpieces in Siena Cathedral, Inspired by Duccio and Nicola Pisano - Wolfgang Loseries VI. Space and Experience Bodies In and Out of Space in Trecento Painting - Karl Whittington Dissolving the Frame: Phenomenology and Index in Trecento Painting - Michael Grillo A Trecento Artist and Miraculous Images: Simone di Filippo at Bologna - Jessica N. Richardson As the World Turns: Revisiting Ambrogio Lorenzetti's Lost Wheel Map in Siena - Mark Rosen VII. Connoisseurship and Conservation Illuminators from Pistoia and Pisa in Trecento Florence: The Case of Two Antiphonary Commissions - Bryan C. Keene The Painting Techniques of Fourteenth-Century Wall Painting in Northern Italy - Fabio Frezzato VIII. Preservation and Display The Camposanto of Pisa in the Wake of World War Two: Loss and Discovery - Cathleen Hoeniger Some Trecento Objects in the Collection of Stefano Bardini: Additions, Subtractions, and Restorations - Anita F. Moskowitz In Memoriam: An Address to the Andrew Ladis Trecento Conference, November 12, 2016 - William Underwood Eiland
