Le parement d’autel de la Comtesse d’Étampes : une broderie réalisée dans le duché d’Athènes ?
: The treasury of the Cathedral of Sens (south of Paris) boasts one of the most important collections of medieval textiles, one of which is the embroidered altar cloth in discussion.
Marielle Martiniani‑Reber
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The Knightly Brothers of Bernard of Clairvaux and the Twelfth‐Century Cistercian Lay Monk*
Abbot Bernard of Clairvaux (r. 1115–1153) was a prominent twelfth‐century religious leader whose knightly family collectively converted to monastic life with him in adulthood around 1113. Following Clairvaux's foundation in 1115, Bernard's brothers held roles of significant estate seniority despite their own professional limitations as newly converted ...
Joseph Millan‐Cole
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Multianalytical Non-Invasive Characterization of ‘Mater Boni Consilii’ Iconography Oil Painting
This paper presents the results of non-invasive diagnostic investigations performed on the canvas oil painting depicting the Marian iconography “Mater Boni Consilii”. The painting, whose author and origin are unknown, was found in an old shop in Florence
Federica Valentini +6 more
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Aretino Jesuited: an English Translation of the Sette Salmi in Seventeenth‐Century Douai
Abstract This article offers the first focused analysis of John Hawkins's 1635 English rendering of Pietro Aretino's Parafrasi sopra i sette salmi della penitenza di David, situating the translation within its Catholic and translingual context. Nearly a century after Thomas Wyatt's versified treatment of the Sette Salmi, a sequence of seven Psalms ...
Andrew S. Keener
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Barjeel Art Foundation: Cross‐National Bridge Building and Decolonisation of the History of Art
Abstract This article focuses on the Barjeel Art Foundation based in Sharjah, UAE. Using a case study approach the work demonstrates how art, art exhibitions and museum spaces are positioned as influencers in the formation of an inclusive space within the History of Art for scholarship on modern and contemporary art from the Middle East and North ...
Mary Kelly
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Raising questions of the disposability of victims of feminicide in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, Teresa Margolles' installation Lote Bravo (2005) is compared with the grassroots activist group Voces Sin Eco's Cross Campaign and Humberto Macías Martínez's Muralist Movement.
Jennifer Cooper
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Prince and Pretender: Marian Iconography and Devotion as Political Rhetoric in the Magnificat Window in Great Malvern Priory Church [PDF]
This article argues that Tudor politics influenced the devotional iconography on display in the Magnificat window in Great Malvern Priory church in Worcestershire, England from 1501.
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Elizabeth I, Thomas Tallis and Judith: music, resistance and the iconography of power
Abstract The use of biblical analogies hailing Elizabeth by comparing her to biblical figures has long been recognized as important for the establishment of her rule. Elizabeth was compared to the apocryphal heroine Judith throughout her reign in a positive way.
Elisabeth Charlotte Natour
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The construction of the church of Sts Ildephonsus and Thomas of Villanova on the Via Sistina in Rome began in 1667. Headquarters of the Spanish Discalced Augustinians in Rome, the church was directly inspired by Francesco Borromini's Chapel of the Three ...
Pablo González Tornel
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Sacred Pathway, Devotional Praxis: Actors, Aché, and Landscape at the Sanctuary of Regla, Cuba
The ferry from Havana to Regla, Cuba, transports visitors from today’s cruise ship docks across a brief stretch of water in about 20 min. Despite its brevity, this watery passage symbolically foregrounds the Marian devotion on the southern rim of the ...
Paul Barrett Niell
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