Images of miraculous healing in the early modern Netherlands

Images of miraculous healing in the early modern Netherlands /

"Images of Miraculous Healing in the Early Modern Netherlands explores the ways in which paintings and prints of biblical miracles shaped viewers' approaches to physical and sensory impairments and bolstered their belief in supernatural healing and charitable behavior. Drawing upon a vast...

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Main Author: Kaminska, Barbara A. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2021
Series:Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history ; v. 58.
Subjects:
Jesus Christ > Art.
Jesus Christ > Miracles.
Jesus Christ > Apparitions and miracles.
Healing in art.
Miracles in art.
Art, Dutch > Themes, motives.
Art, Flemish > Themes, motives.
Art and society > Netherlands > History.
Art and society > Flanders > History.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : understanding miracles, compassion, and disability
  • Christus medicus and beyond : the thaumaturgic power of Christ and medical metaphors in the premodern Netherlands
  • "I was sick and you visited me" : medical assistance and the Seven works of mercy
  • Healing the blind : images of visual impairment in the early modern Low Countries
  • Healing the lame : biblical miracles and mobility impairment in the early modern Netherlands
  • Healing the multitudes : miraculous healing beyond visual and motor impairments
  • Epilogue, or who is worthy of healing and why it matters.

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