Death, torture and the broken body in European art, 1300-1650. ([2015])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by John R. Decker and Mitzi Kirkland-Ives.
• Authors: Decker, John R, 1968-
• Editors: Decker, John R, 1968-; Kirkland-Ives, Mitzi
• Contents: Spectacular unmaking: creative destruction, destructive creativity / John R. Decker -- Guido da Siena and the four modes of violence / Assaf Pinkus -- The suffering Christ and visual mnemonics in Netherlandish devotions / Mitzi Kirkland-Ives -- A chopped-off head on a golden plate : Jan Mostaert's Head of Saint John the Baptist on a plate surrounded by angels / Soetkin Vanhauwaert -- Reviving martyrdom: interpretations of the catacombs in Cesare Baronio's patronage / Kelley Magill -- The authorizations of torture: John Bale writing Anne Askew / Natalia Khomenko -- Killing and dying at the Death of Decius Mus / Renzo Baldasso -- Dracula, the Turks and the rhetoric of impaling in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Germany / Heather Madar -- Execution by image: visual spectacularism and iconoclasm in late medieval and early modern Europe / Allie Terry-Fritsch -- A shameful spectacle: Claes Jansz. Visscher's 1623 news prints of executed Dutch 'Arminians' / Maureen Warren -- Closing thoughts / John R. Decker.
• Publisher Details: Farnham, Surrey, England Burlington, VT, USA : Ashgate
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (xv, 264 pages ), illustrations
• Subjects: 704.9/42; Death in art; Torture in art; Wounds and injuries in art; Human beings in art; Art, European; Art and society -- Europe; Art and society; Art, European; Death in art; Human beings in art; Torture in art; Wounds and injuries in art; Tod; Leiche; Folter; Märtyrer; Europe
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351570107; 1351570102
• Related ISBNs: 9781472433671; 147243367X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-259) and index.; Note: Description based on print version record.
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