A Printed Icon in Early Modern Italy : Forli's Madonna of the Fire
by
Lisa Pon
Book Details
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1107098513
ISBN-13
9781107098510
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 23rd, 2015
Print length
310 Pages
Weight
852 grams
Dimensions
26.40 x 18.60 x 2.40 cms
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In this book, Lisa Pon considers a cascade of moments in the cultural biography of the town of Forlì's miraculous woodcut, the Madonna of the Fire. In doing so, Pon offers an experiment in art historical inquiry that spans more than three centuries of making, remaking, and renewal.
In 1428, a devastating fire destroyed a schoolhouse in the northern Italian city of Forli, leaving only a woodcut of the Madonna and Child that had been tacked to the classroom wall. The people of Forli carried that print - now known as the Madonna of the Fire - into their cathedral, where two centuries later a new chapel was built to enshrine it. In this book, Lisa Pon considers a cascade of moments in the Madonna of the Fire's cultural biography: when ink was impressed onto paper at a now-unknown date; when that sheet was recognized by Forli's people as miraculous; when it was enshrined in various tabernacles and chapels in the cathedral; when it or one of its copies was - and still is - carried in procession. In doing so, Pon offers an experiment in art historical inquiry that spans more than three centuries of making, remaking, and renewal.
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