TMO Tags: iconography
Images, piety and women in late medieval devotion: The Hunt Crucifixion with Saint Clare.
Monday, February 13th, 2012First published in the journal of the University of Limerick History Society, History Studies, vol.6 (2005), pp.2-17. The small fourteenth-century Florentine panel in the Hunt Museum, Limerick, shows an image of the Crucifixion. Beside the cross the Virgin falls in a swoon, supported by one of the holy women and St John the Evangelist. At [...]
Women on the margins: the ‘beloved’ and the ‘mistress’ in Renaissance Florence
Tuesday, January 1st, 2008Introduction I record that on July 31, 1383, there died the ill-famed Letta, daughter of Federigo di Pierozzo Sassetti, in the house of Giovanni di Noldo Porcellini, in the Borgo Ogni Santi. She was buried by the friars of the church of Ogni Santi at the hour of vespers. May the devil take her soul, [...]
The Image of Christmas – The Nativity Represented in Art
Thursday, December 1st, 2005It is fitting to start this account with this image, as in many ways, it shows the start of the Christmas story. It was painted by Fra Angelico (c.1390-1455) a Dominican friar, probably for the Dominican house of San Domenico in Fiesole, near Florence. It was bought in 1612 for the Duke of Lerma’s chapel [...]
Gendered Monsters – Art and politics in the representation of St. George and the Dragon
Saturday, October 1st, 2005Close your eyes and imagine a familiar scene, that of St. George slaying the dragon. In your mind’s eye picture the dragon. What gender is it? A ridiculous question? One could be forgiven for thinking so, imagining a fire-breathing, mythological and neutrally gendered dragon, as indeed is depicted in the vast majority of images and [...]
Feminity in the work of Harry Clarke, Ireland’s great Symbolist artist.
Monday, August 1st, 2005Harry Clarke was recognised for his artistic genius and achieved great success during his own lifetime, yet he often gets pigeonholed into various modes of artistic expression. Clarke however, was not merely a symbolist, a revivalist, an illustrator, or a stained glass artist; he was all of these but also much more complex and interesting [...]
