{"title":"Elizabeth S. Bolman, ed. The Red Monastery Church: Beauty and Asceticism in Upper Egypt","authors":"Jesper Blid","doi":"10.32773/onrj7942","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32773/onrj7942","url":null,"abstract":"Review of Elizabeth S. Bolman, ed. The Red Monastery Church: Beauty and Asceticism in Upper Egypt, by Jesper Blid","PeriodicalId":35070,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Iconography","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70092316","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sonja Drimmer. The Art of Allusion: Illuminators and the Making of English Literature, 1403–1476","authors":"William Kuskin","doi":"10.32773/qpqm5602","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32773/qpqm5602","url":null,"abstract":"Review of Sonja Drimmer. The Art of Allusion: Illuminators and the Making of English Literature, 1403–1476, by William Kuskin","PeriodicalId":35070,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Iconography","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70092447","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Amy Neff. A Soul’s Journey: Franciscan Art, Theology, and Devotion in the “Supplicationes variae”","authors":"Rebecca W. Corrie","doi":"10.32773/mdnz8765","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32773/mdnz8765","url":null,"abstract":"Review of Amy Neff. A Soul’s Journey: Franciscan Art, Theology, and Devotion in the “Supplicationes variae,\" by Rebecca W. Corrie","PeriodicalId":35070,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Iconography","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70092472","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cynthia Hahn. Passion Relics and the Medieval Imagination: Art, Architecture, and Society","authors":"E. Inglis","doi":"10.32773/vnhg5309","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32773/vnhg5309","url":null,"abstract":"Review of Cynthia Hahn. Passion Relics and the Medieval Imagination: Art, Architecture, and Society, by Erik Inglis","PeriodicalId":35070,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Iconography","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70092550","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Betsy Chunko-Dominguez. English Gothic Misericord Carvings: History from the Bottom Up","authors":"Christel Theunissen","doi":"10.32773/tyuq9470","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32773/tyuq9470","url":null,"abstract":"Review of Betsy Chunko-Dominguez. English Gothic Misericord Carvings: History from the Bottom Up, by Christel Theunissen","PeriodicalId":35070,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Iconography","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70092900","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Elizabeth Morrison, ed. Book of Beasts: The Bestiary in the Medieval World","authors":"Irène Fabry-Tehranchi","doi":"10.32773/dhyk4008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32773/dhyk4008","url":null,"abstract":"Review of Elizabeth Morrison, ed. Book of Beasts: The Bestiary in the Medieval World by Irène Fabry-Tehranchi","PeriodicalId":35070,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Iconography","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70091674","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Frame for a Sultan","authors":"Rossitza B. Schroeder","doi":"10.32773/eexr7455","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32773/eexr7455","url":null,"abstract":"This essay explores the iconography and significance of the painted frame in the 1480 portrait of the Ottoman sultan Mehmed II by the Venetian artist Gentile Bellini. The frame is lavishly polymorphous and functions as an encomium of sorts, a visual praise that sets the royal figure apart and propels it into the realm of the holy. The sultan internalized as well as institutionalized the distant, unapproachable persona of the late Byzantine emperors and, like them, retreated behind elaborate ceremonial and precious materials. Bellini responded to these circumstances and granted the sultan the status of semi-divine being while synthesizing Italian and Byzantine traditions of enshrinement of sacred images and matter.","PeriodicalId":35070,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Iconography","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70091731","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Artists and Autonomy: Written Instructions and Preliminary Drawings for the Illuminator in the Huntington Library Legenda aurea (HM 3027)","authors":"M. Easton","doi":"10.32773/gpsm8371","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32773/gpsm8371","url":null,"abstract":"This essay will examine the presence of written instructions and preliminary drawings for the illuminator visible in the Huntington Library Legenda aurea, the oldest surviving extensively illuminated manuscript of the text in Latin. It is an excellent example of the collaborative nature of manuscript production in thirteenth-century Paris. What is particularly interesting is that there are a number of occasions where the miniatures deviate from the text, from the written instructions to the illuminator, and even from the preliminary sketches, which suggest that the artist had some agency in determining the iconography and appearance of the final images. I will discuss these deviations and the broader implications of some of these choices in terms of manuscript production, the status of the artist, and the ideological implications of some of the imagery.","PeriodicalId":35070,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Iconography","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70092358","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Implicating Gaze in Bronzino’s Cosimo I de’ Medici as Orpheus and the Intellectual Culture of the Accademia Fiorentina","authors":"Christine Zappella","doi":"10.32773/qgcr7110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32773/qgcr7110","url":null,"abstract":"The iconography of Bronzino’s sexually explicit Portrait of Cosimo I de’ Medici as Orpheus has long challenged scholars, especially since scientific analysis revealed below the portrait’s surface a fully conceived underpainting depicting a different moment from the story of Orpheus. First, I suggest that this change was associated with Cosimo’s military victory at the battle of Montemurlo, where the duke’s army finally extirpated his political opposition. Second, I contend that Cosimo’s nudity should be interpreted within the milieu of the Accademia Fiorentina, where the painting’s eroticism suggested to court literati that the duke had achieved the highest state of Platonic spirituality, known as “erotic furor.” Finally, I argue that although Bronzino’s Cosimo as Orpheus seemingly aggrandizes the duke, it is a polysemous image that former Republican, anti-ducal literati could likewise interpret as a scathing critique of the young ruler and an embodiment of the hope that political demise was close at hand.","PeriodicalId":35070,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Iconography","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70092392","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“A Lanterne of Lyght to the People”: English Narrative Alabaster Images of John the Baptist in Their Visual, Religious, and Social Contexts","authors":"Kathryn Smith","doi":"10.32773/mlbe2471","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32773/mlbe2471","url":null,"abstract":"English narrative alabaster reliefs depicting the public life and martyrdom of John the Baptist are a fascinating yet understudied corpus. The starting point of this essay and its place of return is a series of three fifteenth-century panels depicting Saint John the Baptist Before Herod Antipas, The Burial of Saint John the Baptist, and The Burning of Saint John the Baptist’s Bones and the Scattering of his Ashes. Once possibly part of an altarpiece made for export, the reliefs are now in The Victoria and Albert Museum. Drawing on a broad range of literary, liturgical, homiletic, folkloric, and artistic sources, the essay examines the multifaceted nature of late medieval devotion to John the Baptist, focusing in particular on the saint’s connection to women, fertility, and healing, and on the festal, celebratory dimensions of his cult. The essay concludes by offering a reading of the V&A reliefs in light of the popular beliefs and customs that would have informed the English alabaster carvers’ lived experience and speculates on the roles of lived experience and memory in the creation and reception of images.","PeriodicalId":35070,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Iconography","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70092018","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}