Viareggio Prize (Premio Viareggio / Premio Letterario Viareggio-Rèpaci)
The Web of Images: Vernacular Preaching from Its Origins to Saint Bernardino Da Siena (Histories of Vision)
This cultural history traces how preaching and images worked together to sustain memory and belief before print. Through concrete examples, it explains the bond between visual expression and oral transmission from the Middle Ages into the Renaissance.
Work Information
It rereads preaching as a technique of images as much as of words.
La rete delle immagini follows the age when preachers combined words and images to speak to their communities, drawing on a wide range of historical sources. It reveals the circulation between painting, memory techniques, and preaching, expanding the scope of visual-cultural history.
Review Summaries
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The book is valued for linking visual culture to preaching practice. It sees the function of religious imagery through the lens of memory and transmission, beyond what a narrow art-historical frame can show.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Ashgate Pub Ltd
- Published
- 2004-01-01
- Pages
- 192 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 17.15 x 1.91 x 24.13 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780754605515
- ISBN-10
- 0754605515
- Category
- 洋書/Religion & Spirituality/Christianity/Christian Living
Through her investigation of the mnemonic role of images in vernacular preaching and in mystical texts, Lina Bolzoni moves beyond the traditional art-historical approach to late Mediaeval and Renaissance art which tends to concentrate on style and iconography. She shows how these images were viewed at the time of their creation, and offers new ways of reconstructing their meaning. By bringing her knowledge of rhetoric and the art of memory to bear on the visual arts she opens up new perspectives for the study of religious art and literature of the Renaissance, and shows how these images actually functioned within the everyday context of the liturgy and of the life of the common people.