Picturing Death 1200–1600

Stephen Perkinson, Ph.D. (1998, Northwestern University), is Professor of Art History and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Bowdoin College. He is the author of The Likeness of the King (Chicago, 2009) and The Ivory Mirror (Yale, 2017). Noa Turel, Ph.D. (2012, University of California, Santa Barbara), is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She is the author of Living Pictures: Jan van Eyck and Painting’s First Century (Yale, 2020).

List of Illustrations

Introduction

 Stephen Perkinson and Noa Turel



part 1: Housing the Dead

1 Looking beyond the Face: Tomb Effigies and the Medieval Commemoration of the Dead

 Robert Marcoux



2 Portraiture, Projection, Perfection: The Multiple Effigies of Enrico Scrovegni

 Henrike Christiane Lange



3 Plorans ploravit in nocte: The Birth of the Figure of the Pleurant in Tomb Sculpture

 Xavier Dectot



4 Gendering Prayer in Trecento Florence: Tomb Paintings in Santa Croce and San Remigio

 Judith Steinhoff



5 Two-Story Charnel-House Chapels and the Space of Death in the Medieval City

 Katherine M. Boivin



part 2: Mortal Anxieties and Living Paradoxes

6 The Living Dead and the Joy of the Crucifixion

 Brigit G. Ferguson



7 The Speaking Tomb: Ventriloquizing the Voices of the Dead

 Jessica Barker



8 Feeding Worms: The Theological Paradox of the Decaying Body and Its Depictions in the Context of Prayer and Devotion

 Johanna Scheel



9 Not Quite Dead: Imaging the Miracle of Infant Resuscitation

 Fredrika H. Jacobs



part 3: The Macabre, Instrumentalized

10 Dissecting for the King: Guido da Vigevano and the Anatomy of Death

 Peter Bovenmyer



11 Covert Apotheoses: Archbishop Henry Chichele’s Tomb and the Vocational Logic of Early Transis

 Noa Turel



12 Into Print: Early Illustrated Books and the Reframing of the Danse Macabre

 Maja Dujakovic



13 Death Commodified: Macabre Imagery on Luxury Objects, c. 1500

 Stephen Perkinson



part 4: Departure and Persistence

14 Coemeterium Schola: The Emblematic Imagery of Death in Jan David’s Veridicus Christianus

 Walter S. Melion



15 A Protestant Reconceptualization of Images of Death and the Afterlife in Stephen Bateman’s A Christall Glasse

 Mary V. Silcox



16 Shifting Role Models within the Society of Jesus: The Abandonment of Grisly Martyrdom Images c. 1600

 Alison C. Fleming



Bibliography

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