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Part one IconograPhIc InventIon In the LIfe of Mary MagdaLene chapter one the MagdaLene as MIrror: trecento francIscan IMagery In the guIdaLottI-rInuccInI chaPeL, fLorence Michelle a. erhardt “Peccatrice Nominata, Madalena da Dio amata” (called the sinner, Magdalene, beloved of god) sings the
dozen startlingly direct paintings that stand apart even in a Netherlandish tradition famed for its portraiture. 6 Floris’s life-size subjects, such as Woman with a Dog (fig. 6.24; cat. P.130), confront us directly. The dim, mottled, and thinly painted background serves to propel the sitter into the
Vita di Ranieri (Life of Saint Ranieri) provides an example of hagiographic writing detailing the life of the lay saint Ranieri of Pisa. In the text the author claims to be a member of the local Benincasa family, living during the last decades of the twelfth century, and a contemporary follower of the
biographies. He was, after all, a painter whose selling points were so closely connected to his patience and his “hand.” 29 As we have seen, however, pictorial and documentary evidence challenge this straightforward characterization. By the 1640s, Dou was the most famous living artist in his hometown of
one portrait of Niclaes Jonghelinck has come down to us, but Carl Van de Velde and Iain Buchanan have uncovered a wealth of documentary evidence about his life and mercantile activities. 11 Jonghelinck was born in Antwerp in 1517 and died there suddenly in 1570. 12 Although untitled, his family
not open the sealed virginity” 35 —and that at the same time converts her into a fountain overflowing with water—to wit, a dispenser of graces which, unlike Egyptian waters (i.e., worldly pleasures), do provide eternal life. 36 So, these three symbols—the sealed fountain, the well of living waters
Brussels a religious procession with in between representations of saints and the life of Christ a wagon with a (man dressed like a) bear playing an organ with the chords attached to the tails of twenty living cats. The courtly specta- tors were intrigued by this ‘extravagance’.9 Also, a famous cat
-breaking and image removal were multi-faceted phenomena, and the fate of Floris’s art in the violence of 1566 is a complex matter that has never been thoroughly explored. Scholars now contend that the Iconoclasm, while perhaps theologically motivated, was more orderly and focused in nature than the writings of
the only prints by Brambilla that carry captions in Latin, and they are published here for the first time. They include a large print divided into eleven sections featuring a portrait of Saint Nicholas of Tolentino in prayer surrounded by scenes from his life (appendix no. 32). In the framed scenes
, for these large polyptychs are inhabited by a teeming group of figures that enact the entire Passion of Christ or scenes from the life of the Virgin (Figs. 1–2). The resulting tableaux vivants invite the viewer to suspend disbelief and enter the sculptural micro-drama. The carved figures beckon one