Vision and the visionary in Raphael
By: Christian K. Kleinbub
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: University Park, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780271037042
Description: "Studies Raphael's images of supernatural phenomena, including apparitions and prophetic visions, within their contemporary artistic and religious contexts. Asks how a fundamentally naturalistic style of painting like that of the Italian Renaissance can accommodate representations of the supernatural without self-contradiction"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Making the invisible visible : Raphael and the development of early modern; title: Visionary imagery; title: The philosophical eye : iconographies of the visual in the School of Athens; title: Blindness and enlightenment : Saint Paul and the idea of the image in Raphael's Sistine tapestries; title: The real and the imaginary; title: Raphael's transfiguration as visio-devotional program.