Christine Sciacca
Auteur de Building the Medieval World
A propos de l'auteur
Crédit image: Christine Sciacca
Œuvres de Christine Sciacca
Ethiopia at the Crossroads 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Sciacca, Christine
- Date de naissance
- 1976-06-02
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Études
- Columbia University (PhD|Art History|2008)
- Professions
- museum curator
art historian - Organisations
- J. Paul Getty Museum
- Courte biographie
- Christine Sciacca is assistant curator of manuscripts at the J. Paul Getty Museum. She is the editor of Florence at the Dawn of the Renaissance (Getty Publications, 2012) and the author of Building the Medieval World (Getty Publications, 2010).
Membres
Critiques
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 4
- Membres
- 96
- Popularité
- #196,089
- Évaluation
- 4.5
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 4
Cons:
This is an examination of medieval women as depicted in illuminated manuscripts. There’s a short forward by Timothy Potts, the Director of the J. Paul Getty Museum, followed by the Introduction. There are four chapters: Medieval Ideals of Womanhood, Warnings to Medieval Women, Medieval Women in Daily Life and Medieval Women in the Arts. At the end there’s a short epilogue and some suggestions for further reading. The book is 120 pages, and there are 100 illustrations.
The chapters start with a short explanation followed by a large number of illustrations. Each image has a good descriptive explanation that often gives context and/or insights into the medieval mind. I was impressed to see an Ethiopian and a Persian image in the Ideals of Womanhood chapter, as well as a few Hebrew manuscripts represented. The images depict a wide variety of women from a good mix of sources. There are saints, Biblical scenes, scenes of romance, giving birth, patrons praying, etc. Some of the sources are book of hours, prayer books, hymnals, medical and history texts, a book of law codes, etc.
The Warnings chapter opens with a brief foray into nude female imagery and the male readership for whom those images were generally commissioned, something I had never considered before. There are several other interesting tidbits that give greater depth to the people who made and used the manuscripts.
I found this a wonderful read. It’s an introductory volume and so accessible to anyone interested in learning more about the middle ages and the role of women.… (plus d'informations)