Mors Triumphans in Medieval Italian Murals: From Allegory to Performance
| Autor: | Verduci, Angelica |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2023 |
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Art History
Middle Ages Triumph of Death Mors Triumphans Death in triumph Trionfo della Morte personified Death medieval Italian murals late medieval art medieval art mural paintings frescoes death imagery death culture medieval death imagery allegory plague vernacular culture mendicant orders flagellants Madonna della Misericordia |
| Druh dokumentu: | Text |
| Popis: | The Triumph of Death is a woefully understudied motif of late medieval art, almost completely overlooked in studies on medieval death imagery and culture. Scholarship on the Triumph of Death is scant and has favored an iconographic and stylistic approach to the subject. By framing the Triumph of Death within its cultural and socio-historical context, addressing literary associations with this motif, and studying its visual developments, this dissertation aims to provide a new insight into the medieval perception of the Triumph of Death imagery. In investigating a broad range of late medieval Italian Triumph of Death frescoes, and studying them through the lenses of gender, reception, and performance theories, my dissertation reveals that representations of personified Death as Mors triumphans (“Death in triumph”) are polysemic. Specifically, I explore the Triumph of Death imagery in relation to four major themes: epidemic disease, courtly love, female personifications of Death in monastic sites, and the vernacular culture of lay brotherhoods of flagellants. |
| Databáze: | Networked Digital Library of Theses & Dissertations |
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