Made in God's image?
Eve and Adam in the Genesis mosaics at San Marco, Venice
by Penny Howell Jolly
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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.
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.
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Art, Bible, Illustrations, Italian Mosaics, Medieval Mosaics, Mosaics, Italian, Mosaics, Medieval, Bible, illustrations, Mosaics, Mosaïque italienne, Ceramics, CRAFTS & HOBBIES, Pottery & Ceramics, Mozaïeken, San Marco (kerk, Venetië), Iconografie, Architecture, Art, Architecture & Applied Arts| Edition | Availability |
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Made in God's Image?: Eve and Adam in the Genesis Mosaics at San Marco, Venice
2023, University of California Press
in English
0520318226 9780520318229
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Made in God's image?: Eve and Adam in the Genesis mosaics at San Marco, Venice
1997, University of California Press
in English
0520205375 9780520205376
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 127-134) and index.
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