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The Virgin and Hell: An Anomalous Fifteenth-Century Italian Mural

Leist, Marnie
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1120757484

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2005, MA, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning : Art History.
In contemporary analyses of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Italian portrayals of the Last Judgment, one mural is usually mentioned as an anomaly: Giovanni da Modena’s fresco in the Bolognini Chapel in the basilica of San Petronio in Bologna. The mural presents the unusual combination of the subjects of the Coronation of the Virgin in Paradise and Hell. While the pairing of Paradise and Hell is thematically linked to representations of the Last Judgment, the act of Judgment is not portrayed in the chapel. The idea for the atypical subject likely derived from artworks from northern Europe, which combine the Coronation of the Virgin with the Last Judgment. The exclusive rendering of the Coronation and Hell is only found in artworks that postdate Giovanni’s mural. Finally, the iconography of the mural specifically relates to the politico-religious messages of the chapel decoration.
Jonathan Riess (Advisor)
188 p.
Art History
Italy; Painting; Hell; Last Judgment; Virgin Mary; Iconography; Bologna; Fifteenth century; Mural; Italian; Fresco; Chapel; Patron; Politics; Church; Pope; Papacy; San Petronio; Bolognini; Giovanni da Modena; Nardo di Cione; Francesco Traini

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  • Leist, M. (2005). The Virgin and Hell: An Anomalous Fifteenth-Century Italian Mural [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1120757484

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Leist, Marnie. The Virgin and Hell: An Anomalous Fifteenth-Century Italian Mural. 2005. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1120757484.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Leist, Marnie. "The Virgin and Hell: An Anomalous Fifteenth-Century Italian Mural." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1120757484

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