TY - BOOK AU - Warr,Cordelia TI - Stigmatics and Visual Culture in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy T2 - Visual and Material Culture, 1300 –1700 SN - 9789048554621 PY - 2022///] CY - Amsterdam : PB - Amsterdam University Press, KW - Art and Material Culture KW - Early Modern Studies KW - Gender and Sexuality Studies KW - History, Art History, and Archaeology KW - ART / European KW - bisacsh KW - stigmata, visual culture, Italy, women, wounds N1 - Frontmatter --; Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700 --; Table of Contents --; Acknowledgements --; List of Illustrations --; 1. Introduction: Stigmata and Visual Culture --; 2. Saint Francis of Assisi as Image --; 3. Representing the Invisible: Saint Catherine of Siena’s Stigmatization --; 4. The Stigmatic Spectrum and the Visual Arts --; 5. Gregorio Lombardelli, Invisibility, and the Representation of Saint Catherine of Siena’s Stigmata --; 6. Performing Stigmata --; 7. Painting, Printing, Sculpting, Forgery (and Washing) --; 8. Conclusion: The Timidity of the Visual Arts --; Complete Bibliography --; Index; restricted access N2 - This book places the discourse surrounding stigmata within the visual culture of the late medieval and early modern periods, with a particular focus on Italy and on female stigmatics. Echoing, and to a certain extent recreating, the wounds and pain inflicted on Christ during his passion, stigmata stimulated controversy. Related to this were issues that were deeply rooted in contemporary visual culture such as how stigmata were described and performed and whether, or how, it was legitimate to represent stigmata in visual art. Because of the contested nature of stigmata and because stigmata did not always manifest in the same form - sometimes invisible, sometimes visible only periodically, sometimes miraculous, and sometimes self-inflicted - they provoked complex questions and reflections relating to the nature and purpose of visual representation. Dr Cordelia Warr is Senior Lecturer in Art History, University of Manchester, UK UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048554621?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9789048554621 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9789048554621/original ER -