Painter And Priest

by Plesch, Veronique; Canavesio, Giovanni

• ISBN13: 9780268038885
• ISBN10: 0268038880
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-07-30
• Publisher: Univ of Notre Dame Pr

Summary

"Giovanni Canavesio, a Piedmontese artist-priest active in the last decades of the fifteenth century in the southern Alps, left behind a significant body of work, including pictorial cycles and altarpieces. This book is an in-depth analysis of his most ambitious cycle on the Passion of Christ, completed in 1492, on the walls of the pilgrimage sanctuary of Notre-Dame des Fontaines outside the French town of La Brigue." "Plesch's primary aim is to understand the cycle's complex and multi-layered meaning. She analyzes the subject matter of the scenes, the significance of their order, how the pictorial and graphic sources were adapted, and the range of formal and visual means used to convey content. Plesch also places Canavesio and his pictorial cycle within wider contexts of the production and consumption of religious art and the nature of devotion in an early modern rural Alpine community." "The two facets of Canavesio's life and work - that of artist and that of priest - are also discussed. By placing the cycle within the larger universe of late medieval religious devotion, Plesch connects Canavesio's work not only with preaching but with devotional meditation and religious theater as well."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Veronique Plesch is associate professor and chair of the Department of Art at Colby College in Waterville, Maine.

Table of Contents

Map	vii
List of Illustrations	ix
Preface	xxi
Acknowledgments	xxv
A Note on Quotations and Reproductions	xxix
``Venerabilis Vir Dominus Presbiter Iohannes de Canavexiis de Pinayrolo Pinctor''	1	(10)
``Ecclesia Fundata in Territorio Brigae sub Vocabulo B. M. de Fontano''	11	(48)
Elocutio: Canavesio's Pictorial Idiom at Notre-Dame des Fontaines	59	(32)
Imitatio: Pictorial Sources of the Passion Cycle at Notre-Dame des Fontaines	91	(62)
Inventio and Dispositio	153	(22)
Amplificatio: Canavesio's Narrative Complexity	175	(54)
Expolitio: Tituli, Scrolls, and Labels	229	(32)
Conclusion: Giovanni Canavesio's Ars praedicandi	261	(38)
Appendix A Canavesio's Other Passion Cycles	299	(13)
Appendix B Comparative List of Scenes in Canavesio's Passion Cycles	312	(2)
Appendix C Savoyard Passion Cycles Frequently Mentioned in the Text	314	(21)
Notes	335	(70)
Works Cited	405	(26)
Index	431