Gendered Perceptions of Florentine Last Supper Frescoes, c. 1350-1490
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256 pages
- Release Date
31 March 2021
Summary
Despite the large number of monumental Last Supper frescoes which adorn refectories in Quattrocento Florence, until now no monograph has appeared in English on the Florentine Last Supper frescoes, nor has any study examined the perceptions of the original viewers. This study examines the rarely considered effect of gender on the profoundly contextualized perceptions of the male and female religious who viewed the Florentine Last Supper images in surprisingly different physical and cultural re…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780367433239 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0367433230 |
| Series: | Visual Culture in Early Modernity |
| Author: | Diana Hiller |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Imprint: | Routledge |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 31 March 2021 |
| Weight: | 470g |
| Dimensions: | 246mm x 174mm |
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’… this well-written and well-illustrated volume provides many insights into the images analyzed here. Hiller has clearly scrutinized the images in question and offers much rich material, assembled both from her archival work and from the extensive published literature on which she draws. Her suggestive findings shed light on the quotidian lives of male and female religious, and her carefully nuanced visual analyses similarly illuminate the images that the residents would have seen daily.’ Studies in Iconography
About The Author
Diana Hiller
Diana Hiller is an independent scholar affiliated with the University of Melbourne, Australia.
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