Andrew R Casper
Biographic Data
| ID | 1610048 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew R Casper |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew R |
| FAMILY NAME | Casper |
| SIGNATURE | CASPER A R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Miami University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Original Copies
The Shroud of Turin is one of Christianity’s most famous, and controversial, sacred artifacts. A large part of its fame is due to the manufacture of reproductions which for five centuries have provided the means to worship the Shroud in absentia. The newest of these, from a project titled Lino Val Gandino, interweave the legacies of centuries of copying up through and including modern digital renderings, multimedia broadcasts, and mass-produced p…
The Mandylions in Genoa and Rome
This essay recovers the dialectics of authenticity informed by the reinvigorated emergence of the Mandylion of Edessa as an authorized early Christian relic in Counter-Reformation Italy. The original was a miraculously generated icon of Christ's face which later became a major devotional artifact in Constantinople during the Byzantine period. However, by the seventeenth century two celebrated images of Christ's face, at San Bartolomeo degli Armen…
Corporeality and Performativity in Baroque Naples
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Blood Kinetics and Narrative Performance in Early Modern Devotions to the Shroud of Turin
Greeks abroad
The language and wording used in the signatures of paintings by D omenikos T heotokopoulos (‘ E l G reco’) reveal a self‐conscious construction of cultural identity in the early modern era. This paper argues that E l G reco, an artist born in C rete who later worked in V enice and R ome for nearly ten years, and then for the rest of his career in T oledo, S pain, used his signature as a means to broadcast his artistic brand as a G reek other duri…
The Muddied Mirror
Forms of Faith in Sixteenth-Century Italy
Abigail Sarah Brundin and Matthew Treherne, eds. Forms of Faith in Sixteenth-Century Italy. Catholic Christendom, 1300–1700. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2009. xiv + 260 pp. index. illus. bibl. $99.95. ISBN: 978–0–7546–6555–7. - Volume 63 Issue 2
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Forms of Faith in Sixteenth-Century Italy
Abigail Sarah Brundin and Matthew Treherne, eds. Forms of Faith in Sixteenth-Century Italy. Catholic Christendom, 1300–1700. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2009. xiv + 260 pp. index. illus. bibl. $99.95. ISBN: 978–0–7546–6555–7. - Volume 63 Issue 2
The Muddied Mirror
Greeks abroad
The language and wording used in the signatures of paintings by D omenikos T heotokopoulos (‘ E l G reco’) reveal a self‐conscious construction of cultural identity in the early modern era. This paper argues that E l G reco, an artist born in C rete who later worked in V enice and R ome for nearly ten years, and then for the rest of his career in T oledo, S pain, used his signature as a means to broadcast his artistic brand as a G reek other duri…
Blood Kinetics and Narrative Performance in Early Modern Devotions to the Shroud of Turin
The Mandylions in Genoa and Rome
This essay recovers the dialectics of authenticity informed by the reinvigorated emergence of the Mandylion of Edessa as an authorized early Christian relic in Counter-Reformation Italy. The original was a miraculously generated icon of Christ's face which later became a major devotional artifact in Constantinople during the Byzantine period. However, by the seventeenth century two celebrated images of Christ's face, at San Bartolomeo degli Armen…
Corporeality and Performativity in Baroque Naples
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Original Copies
The Shroud of Turin is one of Christianity’s most famous, and controversial, sacred artifacts. A large part of its fame is due to the manufacture of reproductions which for five centuries have provided the means to worship the Shroud in absentia. The newest of these, from a project titled Lino Val Gandino, interweave the legacies of centuries of copying up through and including modern digital renderings, multimedia broadcasts, and mass-produced p…
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