Visual Networks of Healing in Renaissance Italy

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Extent: 260 pages

Publisher: Wiley-VCH

Subjects: Art & Art History, Early Modern & Renaissance Studies

Series: Art History (Outside a Series)

Language: English

Hardback (Forthcoming)

(February 2027)

ISBN: 9782503618920

Price: $157.00

Through a wealth of archival material and relevant images, Visual Networks of Healing in Renaissance Italy expounds the complex layers of meaning in visual narratives of miraculous healing, hagiographies of healing saints, and votive culture, to reveal how society in major centres and rural communities experienced disease and appealed for miraculous healing and salvation.


Visual Networks of Healing explores the visual culture of healing in Renaissance Italy. In looking at contemporary understanding of disease and healing practices, these chapters discuss the role and importance of visual imagery in seeking and appealing for cures. This volume provides a new understanding of the practice and representation of healing, giving a fresh insight on visual healing narratives, on the protective and curative powers of healing saints, miracle-working images and relics, by looking at the manifold ways in which they fostered spiritual and physical healing, shaped devotion and cultural traditions in main urban centres and rural communities.