Made in God's Image?: Eve and Adam in the Genesis Mosaics at San Marco, Venice: 4 (The Discovery Series) - Hardcover

Jolly, Penny Howell

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520205375 ISBN 13: 9780520205376

Verlag: University of California Press, 1997

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Book by Jolly Penny Howell

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Reseña del editor

Penny Howell Jolly offers a compelling and provocative reading of a single well-known work of art: the stunning mosaics that illustrate the story of Creation in the church of San Marco in Venice. Jolly studies the mosaics as a reinterpretation of the foundational myth of divine creation and male and female roles, and thus as a social document that reveals a great deal about the perception of relations between the sexes in thirteenth-century Venice. In the end, she sees the mosaic as a highly misogynist revision of the Cotton Genesis directed toward a thirteenth-century audience. The book incorporates recent studies in narratology and feminist theology, as well as a discussion of how a medieval audience, unschooled in reading and writing, was visually literate and able to "read" these images.

Biografía del autor

Penny Howell Jolly is Professor of Art History at Skidmore College.

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• Verlag: University of California Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0520205375
• ISBN 13: 9780520205376
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 127