Picturing Death 1200–1600

Stephen Perkinson, Ph.D. (1998, Northwestern University), is Professor of Art History and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Bowdoin College. He is the author of The Likeness of the King (Chicago, 2009) and The Ivory Mirror (Yale, 2017).Noa Turel, Ph.D. (2012, University of California, Santa Barbara), is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She is the author of Living Pictures: Jan van Eyck and Painting’s First Century (Yale, 2020).

• List of IllustrationsIntroductionStephen Perkinson and Noa Turelpart 1: Housing the Dead1 Looking beyond the Face: Tomb Effigies and the Medieval Commemoration of the DeadRobert Marcoux2 Portraiture, Projection, Perfection: The Multiple Effigies of Enrico ScrovegniHenrike Christiane Lange3 Plorans ploravit in nocte: The Birth of the Figure of the Pleurant in Tomb SculptureXavier Dectot4 Gendering Prayer in Trecento Florence: Tomb Paintings in Santa Croce and San RemigioJudith Steinhoff5 Two-Story Charnel-House Chapels and the Space of Death in the Medieval CityKatherine M. Boivinpart 2: Mortal Anxieties and Living Paradoxes6 The Living Dead and the Joy of the CrucifixionBrigit G. Ferguson7 The Speaking Tomb: Ventriloquizing the Voices of the DeadJessica Barker8 Feeding Worms: The Theological Paradox of the Decaying Body and Its Depictions in the Context of Prayer and DevotionJohanna Scheel9 Not Quite Dead: Imaging the Miracle of Infant ResuscitationFredrika H. Jacobspart 3: The Macabre, Instrumentalized10 Dissecting for the King: Guido da Vigevano and the Anatomy of DeathPeter Bovenmyer11 Covert Apotheoses: Archbishop Henry Chichele’s Tomb and the Vocational Logic of Early TransisNoa Turel12 Into Print: Early Illustrated Books and the Reframing of the Danse MacabreMaja Dujakovic13 Death Commodified: Macabre Imagery on Luxury Objects, c. 1500Stephen Perkinsonpart 4: Departure and Persistence14 Coemeterium Schola: The Emblematic Imagery of Death in Jan David’s Veridicus ChristianusWalter S. Melion15 A Protestant Reconceptualization of Images of Death and the Afterlife in Stephen Bateman’s A Christall GlasseMary V. Silcox16 Shifting Role Models within the Society of Jesus: The Abandonment of Grisly Martyrdom Images c. 1600Alison C. FlemingBibliographyIndex

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