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In 1428, a devastating fire destroyed a schoolhouse in the northern Italian city of Forli, leaving only a woodcut of the Madonna and Child that had been tacked to the classroom wall. The people of Forli carried that print - now known as the Madonna of the Fire - into their cathedral, where two centuries later a new chapel was built to enshrine it. In this book, Lisa Pon considers a cascade of moments in the Madonna of the Fire's cultural biography: when ink was impressed onto paper at a now-unknown date; when that sheet was recognized by Forli's people as miraculous; when it was enshrined in various tabernacles and chapels in the cathedral; when it or one of its copies was - and still is - carried in procession. In doing so, Pon offers an experiment in art historical inquiry that spans more than three centuries of making, remaking, and renewal.

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Book category Books in English The arts History of art / art & design styles History of art & design styles: c 1400 to c 1600

• Full title: Printed Icon in Early Modern Italy
• Subtitle: Forli's Madonna of the Fire
• Author: Lisa Pon
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 310
• EAN: 9781107098510
• ISBN: 1107098513
• ID: 08013170
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 852 g
• Dimensions: 264 × 186 × 24 mm
• Date of publishing: 23. March 2015

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