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David Areford offers a synthetic historical narrative of early prints that stresses their unusual material nature, as well as their accessibility to a variety of viewers, both lay and monastic. This volume represents a shift in the study of the early printed image, one that mirrors the widespread movement in art history away from issues of production, style, and the artist toward issues of reception, function, and the viewer. Areford's approach is intensely grounded in the object, especially the unacknowledged material complexity of the print as a portable, malleable, and accessible image that depended on a response that was not only visual but often physical, emotional, and psychological. Recognizing that early prints were not primarily designed for aesthetic appreciation, the author analyzes how their meanings stemmed from specific functions involving private devotion, protection, indulgences, the cult of saints, pilgrimage, exorcism, the art of memory, and anti-Semitic propaganda.

Book history --- anno 1400-1499 --- Europe --- Prints, European --- Art and society --- Estampe européenne --- Art et société --- History --- Histoire --- Prints, European. --- 76 "14" --- 248.159 --- 7.046 --- 76 "15" --- Grafische kunsten. Grafiek. Prentkunst--15e eeuw. Periode 1400-1499 --- Devoties:--algemeen --- Iconografie: mythologische-, religieuze-, epische voorstellingen. Legenden --- Grafische kunsten. Grafiek. Prentkunst--16e eeuw. Periode 1500-1599 --- 76 "15" Grafische kunsten. Grafiek. Prentkunst--16e eeuw. Periode 1500-1599 --- 7.046 Iconografie: mythologische-, religieuze-, epische voorstellingen. Legenden --- 248.159 Devoties:--algemeen --- 76 "14" Grafische kunsten. Grafiek. Prentkunst--15e eeuw. Periode 1400-1499 --- Estampe européenne --- Art et société --- European prints --- Art --- Art and sociology --- Society and art --- Sociology and art --- Social aspects --- Art and society - Europe - History - To 1500

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Medieval images, especially manuscript illuminations, have long been treated independently of the contexts in which they were created. These beautiful miniature paintings, frequently valued as keepers of documentary evidence or as curious artistic commodities, have only recently become the focus of art historians concerned with new questions related to medieval working methods, audience and the status of the visual in the Middle Ages and the modern era. 'Excavating the Medieval Image' argues that the illuminated image is best understood as thoroughly integrated in the material context of the manuscript - and thus, integrated in a cultural context of production and reception. Seen in this way, the manuscript and its images become a kind of archaeological site, which must be carefully unearthed layer by layer. The fourteen essays gathered here are written by scholars of both medieval and Renaissance art history, and demonstrate varied methodological approaches that combine the pursuits of traditional connoisseurship and iconography with those of critical theory and historiography. In addition, the authors contribute more broadly to important interdisciplinary issues such as the study of gender, text and image, and the history of literacy and the book.

Manuscripts. Epigraphy. Paleography --- Painting --- Iconography --- anno 500-1499 --- Art, Medieval. --- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval. --- Women art patrons --- Women artists --- Art, Renaissance. --- Art médiéval --- Enluminure médiévale --- Femmes mécènes --- Femmes artistes --- Art de la Renaissance --- History --- Histoire --- Art, Medieval --- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval --- Art, Renaissance --- 09 <082 HINDMAN, SANDRA> --- 091.31:7.04 --- Handschriften. Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Curiosa--Feestbundels. Festschriften--HINDMAN, SANDRA --- Verluchte handschriften: iconografie --- Festschrift - Libri Amicorum --- 091.31:7.04 Verluchte handschriften: iconografie --- 09 <082 HINDMAN, SANDRA> Handschriften. Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Curiosa--Feestbundels. Festschriften--HINDMAN, SANDRA --- Art médiéval --- Enluminure médiévale --- Femmes mécènes --- Art patrons --- Women benefactors --- Artists, Women --- Women as artists --- Artists --- Painting, Medieval --- Renaissance art --- Medieval art --- Women art patrons - Europe - History - To 1500 --- Women artists - Europe - History - To 1500

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Book history --- Graphic arts --- anno 1400-1499 --- Europe