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1	The Presentation of Incorruptibility: The <em>Praesentia</em> of the Female Saint Keogh, Kristina M 01 January 2014 (has links) My dissertation inserts the incorruptible body into the discussion of image devotion and relic veneration that followed the Council of Trent’s (1545-1563) decrees concerning the use of images, which affirmed Thomas Aquinas’s position that worship is passed from representation to archetype. This is addressed in terms of the image and the relic within the same sacred space, primarily in the context of the chapels of S. Caterina de’ Vigri (1413-1463; canonized 1712) in Bologna and S. Maria Maddalena de’ Pazzi (1566-1607; canonized 1669) in Florence, where there were not only man-made representations of the saint, but also the whole and entire body of the saint herself. Bringing together an array of visual and textual materials including such objects as the presentation of the preserved body, hagiographies, altarpieces, votive images, and popular prints, I analyze the powerful physical presence (praesentia) of the incorruptible body in relation to the saint’s somatic miracles, the visual commemoration of those miracles at the shrine, and the ultimate transportation of this means of access to the divine when portable images moved away from the body. I analyze how and to what extent the presence of the saint was asserted through the intact corpse and through images of the relic body. By focusing on both the presentation of the incorruptible corpse itself and the visual and written representation of the female relic body in a variety of media, this study will analyze the reception of the powerful physical presence of the holy incorruptible body and its representations. I argue that praesentia is signified not only through the display of the relic body, but also through a synthesized emphasis on the incorruptible corpse as prototype, relic, and image. incorruptible body relics Council of Trent presence Caterina de' Vigri Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi
2	'Seek the Eyes of Mary': A Widow and a Virgin's Illuminating Invitation Kryscynski, Kristina Gayle Heiss 09 April 2020 (has links) A deep visual analysis of Ludovico Carracci’s 1588 Madonna and Child, Angels, and Saints Francis, Dominic, Mary Magdalene and the Donor Cecilia Bargellini Boncompagni with an emphasis on the role of the patron, the significance of the locality, and the visual semiotics of the Virgin Mary’s gaze in prompting conversion in the repentant prostitutes of the Carmelite convertite convent associated with Ss. Filippo and Giacomo in Bologna, Italy. Including a commentary on contemporary social expectations of modest behavior and the painting’s deliberate incorporation of inappropriate female behavior towards a religious purpose. A discussion of uniquely Carmelite iconography, the use of Ignatian mental prayer in convents, and self-determination in imagery by a Bolognese aristocratic woman. The Bargellini Madonna Ludovico Carracci Donna Cecilia Bargellini Boncompagni Bologna convertite Carmelite Madonna and Child Virgin Mary sixteenth-century Italy prostitute Mary Magdalene social reform discalced sacra conversazione patronage Spiritual Exercises St. Ignatius mental prayer laude St. Martha enthroned Madonna Madonna di San Luca mendicant scapular Marian devotion convent Caterina de Vigri gaze lute convent music reception performativity Arts and Humanities

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The Presentation of Incorruptibility: The <em>Praesentia</em> of the Female Saint

'Seek the Eyes of Mary': A Widow and a Virgin's Illuminating Invitation