Hope and healing : painting in Italy in a time of plague, 1500-1800
"Focusing on painting produced in Italy during the Renaissance and Baroque periods, Hope and Healing illuminates the multi-dimensional role of art in times of plague while exploring a wide variety of related aesthetic, religions, and social concerns that found expression through art and, indeed, helped shape that art. An interdisciplinary team of scholars brings to beat on the paintings and themes of the exhibition an extensive body of original research and new insight, the fruit of their examination of a broad array of contemporary documentation, including sermons, devotional and medical treatises, chronicles and broadsides, poetry, chapbooks, and biblical commentary, in addition to the more usual sources of art historical research, such as painting contracts, artistic biography, and collection inventories. The first major exhibition outside of Italy devoted to this important subject, Hope and Healing sheds new light on our understanding of the period as well as the specific works of art that it produced."--BOOK JACKET
Print Book, English, ©2005
Clark University : College of the Holy Cross : Worcester Art Museum ; Distributed by the University of Chicago Press, Worcester, Mass., Chicago, ©2005