The Legend of Veronica in Early Modern Art (Routledge Research in Art and Religion)

Brown, Katherine T.

ISBN 10: 0367197316 / ISBN 13: 9780367197315

Published by Routledge, 2020

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Legend of Veronica in Early Modern Art (Routledge Research in Art and Religion)
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367197316
• ISBN 13: 9780367197315
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

In The Legend of Veronica in Early Modern Art, Katherine T. Brown explores the lore of the apocryphal character of Veronica and the history of the “true image” relic as factors in the Franciscans’ placement of her character into the Via Crucis (Way of the Cross) as the Sixth Station, in both Jerusalem and Western Europe, around the turn of the fifteenth century.

Katherine T. Brown examines how the Franciscans adopted and adapted the legend of Veronica to meet their own evangelical goals by intervening in the fabric of Jerusalem to incorporate her narrative - which is not found in the Gospels - into an urban path constructed for pilgrims, as well as in similar participatory installations in churchyards and naves across Western Europe. This book proposes plausible reasons for the subsequent proliferation of works of art depicting Veronica, both within and independent of the Stations of the Cross, from the early fifteenth through the mid-seventeenth centuries. This book will be of interest to scholars in art history, theology, and medieval and Renaissance studies.

About the Author

Katherine T. Brown is Director of the Honors Program, Director of Museum Studies, and Associate Professor of Art History at Walsh University in North Canton, Ohio.