'Visualizing Sensuous Suffering and Affective Pain in Early Modern Europe and the Spanish Americas' is a trans-cultural collection of studies on visual treatments of the phenomena of suffering and pain in early modern culture. Ranging geographically from Italy, Spain, and the Low Countries to Chile, Mexico, and the Philippines and chronologically from the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries, these studies variously consider pain and suffering as somatic, emotional, and psychological experiences. From examination of bodies shown victimized by brutal public torture to the sublimation of physical suffering conveyed through the incised lines of Counter-Reformation engravings, the authors consider depictions of pain and suffering as conduits to the divine or as guides to social behaviour; indeed, often the two functions overlap.
Author(s): Heather Graham, Lauren G. Kilroy-Ewbank (eds.)
Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 277. Brill’s Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History, 24
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2018
Language: English
Pages: 462
City: Leiden
Acknowledgments ix
List of Illustrations x
List of Abbreviations xviii
List of Contributors xix
Introduction: Visualizing Sensuous Suffering and Affective Pain in Early Modern Europe and the Spanish Americas / Heather Graham and Lauren G. Kilroy-Ewbank 1
PART 1. Performing Pain
1. Pain and Paint: Titian, Ribera, and the Flaying of Marsyas / Itay Sapir 35
2. Animal Trials, Humiliation Rituals, and the Sensuous Suffering of Criminal Offenders in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe / Allie Terry-Fritsch 53
3. Compassionate Suffering: Somatic Selfhood and Gendered Affect in Italian Lamentation Imagery / Heather Graham 82
4. 'One of those Lutherans we used to burn in Campo de’ Fiori': Engraving Sublimated Suffering in Counter-Reformation Rome / Ruth S. Noyes 116
PART 2. Pain and Suffering in Franciscan Devotion
5. Pain and Pathos: Franciscan Ideologies and Antonello da Messina’s Images of Ecce Homo / Peter Weller 169
6. An Andean Stoning: Francis as 'Alter Christus' in Viceregal Santiago / Catherine Burdick 207
7. Hagiographical Misery and the Liminal Witness: Novohispanic Franciscan Martyr Portraits and the Politics of Imperial Expansion / Emmanuel Ortega 234
PART 3. Sensuous Suffering Through Word and Image
8. 'Eyes Enlivened and Heart Softened': The Visual Rhetoric of Suffering in 'Gebedenboek Ruusbroecgenootschap' HS 452 / Walter S. Melion 269
9. Love Hurts: Depictions of Christ Wounded in Love in Colonial Mexican Convents / Lauren G. Kilroy-Ewbank 313
10. Reparations for Christ Our Lord: Devotional Literature, Penitential Rituals, and Sacred Imagery in Colonial Mexico City / Derek Scott Burdette 358
11. Empathetic Wounds: Gregorio Fernández’s 'Cristos yacentes' as a Nexus of Art, Anatomy, and Counter-Reformation Theology / Tiffany Lynn Hunt 383
Index 429
