1st Edition
Gendered Perceptions of Florentine Last Supper Frescoes, c. 1350–1490
By Diana Hiller
Copyright 2014
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
Despite the large number of monumental Last Supper frescoes which adorn refectories in Quattrocento Florence, until now no monograph has appeared in English on the Florentine Last Supper frescoes, nor has any study examined the perceptions of the original viewers. This study examines the rarely considered effect of gender on the profoundly contextualized perceptions of the male and female... Read more
Contents: Prefatory note; Introduction; Genesis and development of the Florentine Last Supper frescoes; Perception ‘by the whole light of the mind’ and perception ‘by the eyes of the watchful heart’; The apostles as a focus for gendered perceptions; The perceptual environment of the male refectories; The perceptual environment of the female refectories; Conclusion; Select bibliography; Index.
Biography
Diana Hiller is an independent scholar affiliated with the University of Melbourne, Australia.
'... this well-written and well-illustrated volume provides many insights into the images analyzed here. Hiller has clearly scrutinized the images in question and offers much rich material, assembled both from her archival work and from the extensive published literature on which she draws. Her suggestive findings shed light on the quotidian lives of male and female religious, and her carefully nuanced visual analyses similarly illuminate the images that the residents would have seen daily.' Studies in Iconography
