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  • Record Number: 19703
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Hamburger , Jeffrey.
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  • Title: Seeing and Believing: The Suspicion of Sight and the Authentication of Vision in Late Medieval Art [Late medieval art and visionary theology both reveal an ambivalence about the role of corporeal sight in religion. A desire for direct vision of the divine was coupled with skepticism about claims to bodily sight. Images that aped bodily experience, especially in Flemish art, also gave some theologians cause for concern. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
  • Source: Imagination und Wirklichkeit: Zum Verhältnis von mentalen und realen Bilder in der Kunst der frühen Neuzeit.  Edited by Alessandro Nova and Klaus Krüger.  Von Zabern, 2000.  Pages 47 - 70.
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  • Article Type: Essay
  • Subject (See Also): Art History- General Gertrude the Great of Helfta, Mystic, Saint Jan van Eyck, Painter Mary, Virgin, Saint- Annunciation in Art Sight Veronica's Veil Visions
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  • Geographic Area: General
  • Century: 13- 14- 15
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  • Illustrations: Eleven figures. Figure One Image of the Crucified Christ, Germany, 1380-90. Figure Two Jan Van Eyck, Triptych, 1437. Figure Three Jan Van Eyck, Madonna and Child with Canon George van der Paele, 1436. Figure Four Jan Van Eyck, Madonna and Child with Canon George van der ~~Paele, 1436 (detail). Figure Five Sedes Sapientiae statue, Liege, ca. 1230. Figure Six Jan Van Eyck, Annunciation, c. 1435-4.~~Figure Seven Jan Van Eyck, Annunciation, c. 1435-41 (rear). Figure Eight Virgin and Child, Italy, date unknown. Figure Nine~~Virgin and Child, Italy, date unknown ( rear). Figure Ten Roger of Helmarshausen, Portable altar, 12th century. Figure Eleven~~Vault of Nuns' Choir, Kloster Wienhausen.
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  • Year of Publication: 2000.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 3805327161