Publication – Push me, Pull You. Imaginative, Emotional, Physical, and Spatial Interaction in Late Medieval and Renaissance Art

Late Medieval and Renaissance art was surprisingly pushy; its architecture demanded that people move through it in prescribed patterns, its sculptures played elaborate games alternating between concealment and revelation, while its paintings charged viewers with imaginatively moving through them. Viewers wanted to interact with artwork in emotional and/or performative ways. This inventive and personal interface between viewers and artists sometimes conflicted with the Church’s prescribed devotional models, and in some cases it complemented them. Artists and patrons responded to the desire for both spontaneous and sanctioned interactions by creating original ways to amplify devotional experiences. The authors included here study the provocation and the reactions associated with medieval and Renaissance art and architecture. These essays trace the impetus towards interactivity from the points of view of their creators and those who used them.

Table des matières :

PART I: SHIFTING PERSPECTIVES: TEXT, IMAGE, AND INTERACTION

Robert Clark & Pamela Sheingorn – Encountering a Dream-Vision : Visual and Verbal Glosses to Guillaume de Digulleville’s Pelerinage Jhesucrist
Elizabeth Monroe – Dangerous Passages and Spiritual Redemption in the Hortus Deliciarum

Anne Stanton – Turning the Pages: Marginal Narratives and Devotional Practice in Gothic Prayerbooks
Margaret Goehring – Exploring the Border: the Breviary of Eleanor of Portugal
Erika Boeckler – Inhabiting Alphabetic Space: Early Modern Architectural and Human Alphabets

PART II: IMAGINED PILGRIMAGE AND SPIRITUAL TOURISM

Henry Luttikhuizen – Still Walking: Spiritual Pilgrimage, Early Dutch Painting and the Dynamics of Faith

Megan Foster-Campbell – Pilgrimage through the Pages: Pilgrims’ Badges in Late Medieval Devotional Manuscripts

PART III: INDULGENCES AND INTERACTIVITY

Walter Gibson – Prayers and Promises: The Interactive Indulgence Print in the Later Middle Ages
Amy Morris – Art and Advertising: Late Medieval Altarpieces in Germany
Susan Ward – Who Sees Christ ? An Alabaster Panel of the Mass of St. Gregory

PART IV: PERFORMATIVITY AND EMPATHIC DEVOTIONAL PRACTICE

Donna Sadler – The Well of Moses and Roland Barthes’ ‘Punctum’ of Piety

Mark Trowbridge – Sin and Redemption in Late-Medieval Art and Theater: The Magdalen as Role Model in Hugo van der Goes’s Vienna Diptych
Kristen Van Ausdall – Communicating with the Eucharist: Sacramental Images and Spiritual Communion

Juan Luis González García – The Visual and Verbal Rhetoric of Royal Private Piety in Renaissance Spain

PART V: REFLECTIONS IN MIRRORS, WALLS, AND INTERSTICES

Alexa Sand – The fairest of them all: Reflections on Some Fourteenth-Century Mirrors
Scott Montgomery – Bones and Stones: Imaging Sacred Defense in Medieval Cologne
Al Acres – The Middle of Diptychs

PHYSICAL VOLUME, Volume II

PART I: MANIPULATING OBJECTS, MANIPULATIVE OBJECTS

Kathleen Ashley – Hugging the Saint: Improvising Ritual on the Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela
Sarah Blick – Votives, Images, Interaction, and Pilgrimage to the Tomb and Shrine of St. Thomas Becket, Canterbury Cathedral
Annette LeZotte – Cradling Power: Female Devotions and Early Netherlandish Jésueaux

PART II: INSISTENT IMAGES AND SPACES

Laura Gelfand – Illusionism and Interactivity: Medieval Installation Art, Architecture and Devotional Response
Lex Hermans – Consorting with stone: The figure of the speaking and moving statue in early modern Italian writing
Fredericka Jacobs – Images, Efficacy & Ritual in the Renaissance: Burning the Devil and Dusting the Madonna

PART III: REVEALING AND CONCEALING

Viola Belghaus – Everybody’s Darling. Transformation of value and transformation of meaning in the veneration of St. Elizabeth of Thuringia
Elina Gertsman – The Pilgrim’s Progress : Devotional Journey through the Holy Womb
Suzanne Karr Schmidt – Memento Mori : The Deadly Art of Interaction

PART IV: PAINTING, SPECTACLE, AND PERFORMATIVITY

Michelle Erhardt – Preparing the Mind. Preparing the Soul. The Fusion of Franciscan Thought into the Daily Lives of Friars in the Sacristy Decoration of Santa Croce, Florence
Jane Long – Parallelism in Giotto’s Santa Croce Frescoes
Mark Tucker and Lloyd De Witt – The Guiding Illusions of the Morrison Triptych
Kathryn Poole – Christian Crusade as Spectacle: The Cavalieri di Santo Stefano and the Audiences for the Medici Weddings of 1589 and 1608

PART V: LIMINALITY, RECEPTION, AND THE MEANING OF MOVEMENT

Mickey Abel – Intellectual Projection, Liminal Penetration: Programmed Entry and the Tympanum-less Portals of Western France and Northern Spain
Janet Snyder – Bodies under Wraps, Revealed : Interaction in twelfth-century French sculpture
Vibeke Olson – Movement, Metaphor and Memory: The Interactions Between Pilgrims and Portal Programs
Rita Tekippe – The Grand Procession at Tournai: the Community Writ Large

Informations pratiques : Sarah Blick et Laura D. Gelfand, Push me, Pull You. Imaginative, Emotional, Physical, and Spatial Interaction in Late Medieval and Renaissance Art, 2 vol., Leyde, 2011 (Studies in medieval and reformation traditions, 156). 728 + 680 p., 357 illustrations. ISBN : 9789004205734.