Blessed and beautiful
Subtitle: picturing the saints
By: Robert Kiely
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780300162776
Subjects: Italian Painting; Renaissance Painting; Themes, motives; Christian saints in art; Art and society
Other titles: Rereading the saints with help from the Italian masters
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Choosing the "beautiful ones"; title: The standing of Mary : Opus Formosior; title: A saint for all seasons : taking liberties with John the Baptist; title: Recovering Mary Magdalene and the dignity of woman : Apostola Apostolorum; title: Manliness and saintliness : the cases of Mark, Sebastian, and Rocco; title: The pearls of Saint Lawrence : what Ruskin sees when he looks at a picture; title: Imagining Augustine imagining, or, A theologian's toothache; title: Sodoma's Saint Benedict : out in the cloister; title: Further considerations of the holy stigmata of Saint Francis : where was Brother Leo?; title: The saint who lost her head, or, Who's afraid of Catherine of Siena?; title: Saints fair and fearsome : Louis of Toulouse and Bernardino da Siena; title: Epilogue : pace e bene.