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The Power of Paintings

Religious experience

Texts

Peter Spufford: Currency and Money of Account
from Peter Spufford: Introduction to The Handbook of Medieval Exchange, Royal Historical Society, London 1986

Eric Fernie: Introduction - A History of Methods
from Eric Fernie: Art History and its Methods - a critical anthology, Phaidon Press Ltd, London 1995

Gaetano Milanesi: Nuovi documenti per la storia dell'arte Toscana dal XII al XV secolo, published in 1901. Available in the National Art Library.

Contract between Bishop Guido Tarlati of Arezzo and Pietro Lorenzetti (1320) for the altarpiece on the high altar of the Pieve
(See Kempers note 120 p 331)

Essays:

Saint Liberata/Wilgefortis

Anorexia and religiosity

J Hubert Lacey: Anorexia nervosa and a bearded female saint
British Medical Journal 1982
Statue of St Wilgefortis in The Lady Chapel, Westminster Abbey.
Volto Santo crucifix 11th century, Lucca cathedral (Belting p306)
Volto Santo crucifix Lucca, Biblioteca Communale (Belting p306)
Hans Memling Triptych of Adriaan Reins
St Wilgefortis is shown with crown, beard and cross. On the other shutter is St Mary of Egypt, naked with three loaves. (More details)
Sta. Liberata in Italy:
Chiesa del SS. Rosario (XV cent.) Calabriaoggi
S. Liberata Piacenza
San Polo dei Cavalieri, Lazio
Museo Civico Biassono
Bibliography (articles):
Saint Jerome's letter to Paula urging her and her daughters to asceticism.
(See also Botticini's altarpiece of Saint Jerome, Paula and Eustochium.)
Heather Eaton: Food as the Signifier of Piety to Female Ascetics of the High Middle Ages
The Psychoanalytic Approach to Psychosomatics and Eating Disorders
Outrage in America at the image of a crucified woman

Books (also here):

Author	Ilse E. Friesen
Title	The female crucifix: images of St. Wilgefortis since the Middle Ages
Note	Tracing the origins of the depictions of the saint from the Volto Santo crucifix (see above), through the emergence of increasingly feminised crucifixes during the subsequent centuries.
Date	2001
Publisher	Wilfrid Laurier University Press
City	Waterloo, Ontario

From The Golden Legend

Islamic motifs in painted textiles

Essay on Islamic motifs in Barnaba da Modena's Crucifixion in Museo San Agostino in Genoa
Detail from the Crucifixion
Graphical illustration of the motifs
Graphical illustration of an 11th century Spanish textile from the Bargello.
Gentile da Fabriano

1422

Madonna of Humility

Museo Nazionale di San Matteo, Pisa

Around the border of the cloth, on which the Christ child is lying, is inscribed a verse from the Koran LA ILLAHI ILA ALLAH (There is no god but Allah), an indication, according to Enzo Carli, of the survival of Islamic culture in Pisa.
(It's definitely there, I looked!)

Confraternities and confraternity commissions

The Tornabuoni chapel in Santa Maria Novella

Beth Williamson: The Cloisters Double Intercession
Apollo November 2000
Millard Meiss: The Cloisters Double Intercession
Metropolitan Museum Bulletin 1952-53

The Annunciation with St Emidius from Martin Davies: The Earlier Italian Schools

Author	Timothy Verdon and John Henderson (eds)
Title	Christianity and the Renaissance
Date	1990
Publisher	Syracuse University Press
City	Syracuse, New York