Visualizing Sensuous Suffering and Affective Pain in Early Modern Europe and the Spanish Americas

Lauren G. Kilroy-Ewbank, Ph.D. (2009), University of California-Los Angeles, is Associate Professor of Art History at Pepperdine University. She has published articles on colonial Mexican visual culture, and has a forthcoming manuscript on the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Mexico.Heather Graham, Ph.D. (2010) University of California-Los Angeles, is Assistant Professor of Art History at California State University, Long Beach. Her research considers the intersections of gender with the histories of the body and the emotions in Italian Renaissance art.

• AcknowledgmentsList of IllustrationsList of AbbreviationsList of ContributorsIntroduction: Visualizing Sensuous Suffering and Affective Pain in Early Modern Europe and the Spanish AmericasHeather Graham and Lauren G. Kilroy-EwbankPart 1Performing Pain1 Pain and Paint: Titian, Ribera, and the Flaying of MarsyasItay Sapir2 Animal Trials, Humiliation Rituals, and the Sensuous Suffering of Criminal Offenders in Late Medieval and Early Modern EuropeAllie Terry-Fritsch3 Compassionate Suffering: Somatic Selfhood and Gendered Affect in Italian Lamentation ImageryHeather Graham4 “One of those Lutherans we used to burn in Campo de’ Fiori”: Engraving Sublimated Suffering in Counter-Reformation RomeRuth S. NoyesPart 2 Pain and Suffering in Franciscan Devotion5 Pain and Pathos: Franciscan Ideologies and Antonello da Messina’s Images of Ecce HomoPeter Weller6 An Andean Stoning: Francis as Alter Christus in Viceregal SantiagoCatherine Burdick7 Hagiographical Misery and the Liminal Witness: Novohispanic Franciscan Martyr Portraits and the Politics of Imperial ExpansionEmmanuel OrtegaPart 3 Sensuous Suffering Through Word and Image8 “Eyes Enlivened and Heart Softened”: The Visual Rhetoric of Suffering in Gebedenboek Ruusbroecgenootschap HS 452Walter S. Melion9 Love Hurts: Depictions of Christ Wounded in Love in Colonial Mexican ConventsLauren G. Kilroy-Ewbank10 Reparations for Christ Our Lord: Devotional Literature, Penitential Rituals, and Sacred Imagery in Colonial Mexico CityDerek Scott Burdette11 Empathetic Wounds: Gregorio Fernández’s Cristos Yacentes as a Nexus of Art, Anatomy, and Counter-Reformation TheologyTiffany Lynn HuntIndex

“excellent volume”Anthony Colantuono, University of Maryland. In: Emotions, Vol. 2, No. 2 (2018), pp. 344–346.“This beautifully produced book constitutes a significant and welcome contribution to the growing literature on the body, violence, and pain in the past.”Esther Cohen, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 72, No. 3 (Fall 2019), pp. 1084–1085. “This edited volume is a smart, well-conceived investigation into the visual imagery of suffering and pain in early modern Europe and Spanish colonial territories.” Elizabeth A. Lisot-Nelson, University of Texas at Tyler. In: Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 50, No. 3 (Fall 2019), pp. 858–860.