To browse Academia. This dissertation examines approaches to illustrating the Three Living and the Three Dead, a moralizing tale known across Europe in the late Middle Ages.
Illustrated versions of the texts survive in a number of different manuscript contexts. While the earliest depictions show an apparently benign conversation occurring between living and dead, by the late fifteenth century other ways of illustrating the tale had emerged. The most striking of these was the aggressive chase after the living by the dead, which most often accompanied the prayers of the Office of the Dead in Books of Hours.
While previous art historical investigations have concentrated on localization, chronology, as well as stylistic and formal analyses, my project engages with the larger questions of function, audience, and the relationship between text and image. The thesis begins by situating the Three Living and the Three Dead in the scholarship on the art of death of the late Middle Ages. The art of that period has Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture, Autumn , pp.
Tra le coste del Levante e le terre del tramonto. Studi in ricordo di Paolo Bernardini, Asian Journal of Research in Infectious Diseases, International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Safety, Log in with Facebook Log in with Google. Remember me on this computer. Enter the email address you signed up with and we'll email you a reset link. Need an account? Click here to sign up. The art of that period has long been perceived as a reflection of a time of decline.
I expand the discussion to include small scale, private devotional images of death, and demonstrate that such images could serve practical and positive functions for their users.
