Death, Disease and Mystical Experience in Early Modern Art

Introduction: Manipulating the Sacred - Jennifer Milam and Michael Hill, 1. Mary as Model for Trecento Mourning - Judith Steinhoff, University of Houston, 2. Pacem meam do vobis: Earthly Suffering and Celestial Redemption in the Trecento Fresco Program by Vitale da Bologna at Pomposa Abbey - Catherine Blake, independent scholar, 3. Dying to be Born Again: Death in the Florentine Sacre Rappresentazioni - Nerida Newbigin, University of Sydney, 4. The Visual Transformations of St Anthony the Abbot: From Protector of the Sick to Victor over Sexual Desire - Charles Zika, University of Melbourne, 5. Giovanni Cariani's Woman Reclining in a Landscape: The Erotic Subverted - Carolyn Smyth, John Cabot University, Rome, 6. Touching Visions: Female Mystics Interacting with the Christ Child and with Mary - Patricia Simons, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, 7. Queering Mysticism and the Lactating Virgin: The Madonna delle Grazie with Souls in Purgatory and its Audience of Nuns - Christina Neilson, Oberlin College, 8. Securing Heavenly Protection in Apocalyptic Times: A Series of Fresco Votives in the Oratory of San Giovanni Battista in Urbino. - Di Haskell, independent scholar, 9. The Long Goodbye: Resurrecting Rome's Apostolic Past in The Final Embrace of Saints Peter and Paul - Barbara Wisch, State University of New York, College at Cortland, 10. The Beautiful Death of the Count of Orgaz: Andrés Núñez, El Greco, and the Making of a Counter Reformation Saint - Karen McCluskey, University of Notre Dame, Sydney, 11. A Vessel to be Filled: Caravaggio's Conversion of St. Paul in Santa Maria del Popolo - Michael Hill, National Art School, Sydney, 12. Lo Strascino's Lamento and the Visual Culture of the French Pox around 1500 - John Gagne, University of Sydney, 13. Whiz King: Urination as Divination in Prints for Louis XIV - Mark de Vitis, University of Sydney, 14. David's Saint Roch: Plague Painting in the Age of Enlightenment - Jennifer Milam, University of Newcastle, 15. Blake's Petworth House Last Judgment and Female Anatomy - Anthony Apesos, Lesley University, 16. Cocteau's London Elegy: Re-purposed Renaissance Imagery in a Twentieth-Century Crucifixion - Stephen Holford, independent scholar, Index