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Author Brown, Katherine T., author.

Title The legend of Veronica in early modern art / Katherine T. Brown
Published New York, NY : Routledge, 2020
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Description 1 online resource (xv, 162 pages)
Series Routledge research in art and religion
Routledge research in art and religion.
Contents Veronica in legend and literature -- The sudarium relic as material object in the West -- Via Crucis -- Jerusalem abroad and theological rationales -- Viewing Veronica through the lens of gender -- The iconography of Veronica in Western European art
Summary "In The Legend of Veronica in Early Modern Art, Katherine T. Brown explores the lore of the apocryphal character of Veronica and the history of the "true image" relic as factors in the Franciscans' placement of her character into the Via Crucis (Way of the Cross) as the Sixth Station, in both Jerusalem and Western Europe, around the turn of the fifteenth century. Katherine T. Brown examines how the Franciscans adopted and adapted the legend of Veronica to meet their own evangelical goals by intervening in the fabric of Jerusalem to incorporate her narrative-which is not found in the Gospels-into an urban path constructed for pilgrims, as well as in similar participatory installations in church yards and naves across Western Europe. This book proposes plausible reasons for the subsequent proliferation of works of art depicting Veronica, both within and independent of the Stations of the Cross, from the early fifteenth through the mid-seventeenth centuries. This book will be of interest to scholars in art history, biblical studies, and Renaissance studies"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Katherine T. Brown is Director of the Honors Program, Director of Museum Studies, and Associate Professor of Art History at Walsh University in North Canton, Ohio
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 20, 2020)
Subject Veronica, Saint, active 1st century -- Art
Veronica, Saint, active 1st century.
Stations of the Cross.
Franciscan art -- Jerusalem
Franciscan art -- Europe, Western
Stations of the Cross.
ART -- Subjects & Themes -- Religious.
ART -- History -- Renaissance.
RELIGION -- Christianity -- Theology -- General.
Franciscan art.
Stations of the Cross.
Middle East -- Jerusalem.
Western Europe.
Genre/Form Electronic books
Art.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019049307
ISBN 9780429242922
0429242921
9780429516078
042951607X
9780429512643
0429512643
9780429519505
0429519508