Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 29461
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Neff , Amy,
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  • Title: The Humble Man's Wedding: Two Late Thirteenth-Century Franciscan Images of the "Miracle at Cana" : [The author analyzes two Franciscan-inspired paintings of the Miracle at Cana, a fresco in the Upper Church of San Francesco in Assisi and a full-page illustration in the “Supplicationes variae,” a devotional manual. Neff traces iconography and theolog
  • Source: Gothic Art and Thought in the Later Medieval Period: Essays in Honor of Willibald Sauerländer.  Edited by Colum Hourihane.  Index of Christian Art, Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University in association with Penn State University Press, 2011.  Pages 292 - 323.
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  • Article Type: Essay
  • Subject (See Also): Art History- Painting Assisi, Perugia, Italy- Church of San Francesco- Painting of the Miracle at Cana Bible Exegesis- John Bonaventure, Theologian, Saint Bride of Christ, Image of Devotional Art Franciscan Order Iconography Illumination of Manusc
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  • Geographic Area: Italy
  • Century: 13
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  • Illustrations: Twenty-three figures. Figure One Miracle at Cana, fresco (Assisi, San Francesco, nave of the Upper Church). Figure Two Annunciation and Miracle at Cana, fresco (Assisi, San Francesco, nave of the Upper Church, first bay of south wall). Figure Three "Suppl
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  • Related Resources: Assisi, San Francesco, nave of the Upper Church, Miracle at Cana (Wikimedia Commons)