Description
Book SynopsisNew Perspectives on the Man of Sorrows is a collection derived from the symposium on the Man of Sorrows the editors organized and held at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, Winter 2011, which itself emerged from the exhibition "Passion in Venice: Crivelli to Tintoretto and Veronese; The Man of Sorrows in Venetian Art", co-curated by Puglisi and Barcham at the Museum of Biblical Art, New York. The essays included here investigate an assortment of issues and problems raised by the Man of Sorrows, a figure charged with profound spiritual, metaphorical, and symbolic meaning that traveled across Europe, populated all the arts, and permeated numerous religious contexts as it soared in popularity in the West from the late Middle Ages into the Renaissance and beyond. Five essays cover a wide group of subjects and five focus in particular on Venice. The authors of these studies represent different approaches, methods, and interests and explain several artistic schools, traditions, and periods, proposing new perspectives on this remarkable image. The Man of Sorrows was able to adapt to external circumstances, to the constraints of different media, exigencies of changing milieus, the requirements of patrons, and the needs of the devout, and is therefore of interest to just as wide an audience today as ever.
Table of ContentsIntroduction
“A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief” (Isa. 53:3): The Biblical Text and Its Afterlife in Christian Tradition by John Sawyer
Defining Terms: Ecce Homo, Christ of Pity, Christ Mocked, and the Man of Sorrows by Colum Hourihane
The Rise and Early Development of the Man of Sorrows in Central and Northern Europe by Grazyna Jurkowlaniec
The Man of Sorrows in Northern Europe: Ritual Metaphor and Therapeutic Exchange by Mitchell B. Merback
From Book to Song: Texts Accompanying the Man of Sorrows in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries by Susan Boynton
The Man of Sorrows from Byzantium to Venetian Crete: Some Observations on Iconography and Function by Maria Constantoudaki-Kitromilides
Six Panels by Michele Giambono, “pictor Sancti Marci” by William L. Barcham
From Column to Chalice: Passion Imagery in Venetian Mariegole ca. 1320–1550 by Lyle Humphrey
Veronese’s Visioning of the Man of Sorrows by Catherine R. Puglisi
Images of Christ for Venetian Piety and Devotions in the Light of the Council of Trent by Stefania Mason
Notes on Contributors
Index
