Cover -- SAINT MARKS -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- List of Figures and Plates -- Part I PAINTING MARKS -- 1. Atmospherics (Bellini) -- 2. Gravity (Tintoretto) -- Part II WRITING MARKS -- 3. Stones (of Venice) -- 4. Secrets -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index …
Description: Saint Marks invokes and pluralizes the figure of Mark in order to explore relations between painting and writing. Emphasizing that the saint is not a singular biographical individual in the various biblical and hagiographic texts that involve someone so named, the b…
"Saint Marks invokes and pluralizes the figure of Mark in order to explore relations between painting and writing. Emphasizing that the saint is not a singular biographical individual in the various biblical and hagiographic texts that involve someone so named, the book takes as…
Saint Marks invokes and pluralizes the figure of Mark in order to explore relations between painting and writing. Emphasizing that the saint is not a singular biographical individual in the various biblical and hagiographic texts that involve someone so named, the book takes as …
Saint Marks is a study based on the multiple representations of St. Mark, with a focus on Venetian Renaissance paintings and the gospel attributed to him, and theoretical work by philosophers and art historians who consider the afterlives of art works and our attachments to them…
by Project Muse, Goldberg, Jonathan
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