UID:
edoccha_9958103483902883
Format:
1 online resource (xiii, 142 pages) :
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illustrations
ISBN:
0-585-05498-3
Series Statement:
California studies in the history of art. Discovery series ; 4
Content:
Penny Howell Jolly offers a compelling and provocative reading of a single well-known work of art: the stunning mosaics that illustrate the story of Creation in the church of San Marco in Venice. Jolly studies the mosaics as a reinterpretation of the foundational myth of divine creation and male and female roles, and thus as a social document that reveals a great deal about the perception of relations between the sexes in thirteenth-century Venice.
Content:
In the end, she sees the mosaic as a highly misogynist revision of the Cotton Genesis directed toward a thirteenth-century audience. The book incorporates recent studies in narratology and feminist theology, as well as a discussion of how a medieval audience, unschooled in reading and writing, was visually literate and able to "read" these images.
Note:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Creation before Eve -- Maid in God's Image? Eve as the Embodiment of Difference -- The First Couple in Paradise -- The Labors of Adam and Eve -- The Fallen World and Thirteenth-Century Venice.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-520-20537-5
Language:
English
