Christine M Boeckl
Biographic Data
| ID | 8504940 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christine M Boeckl |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christine M |
| FAMILY NAME | Boeckl |
| SIGNATURE | BOECKL C M |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 1 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Plague Imagery as Metaphor for Heresy in Rubens' The Miracles of Saint Francis Xavier
In 1617 Peter Paul Rubens painted the allegorical altarpiece, The Miracles of Saint Francis Xavier. Most of the represented events have been previously identified. However, the prominent foreground figure, a reclining man on the brink of death, seems to have been misinterpreted as a person raised from the dead. I propose instead that Rubens depicted an infidel cured by the missionary of bubonic plague, the illness being a manifestation of the man…
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Plague Imagery as Metaphor for Heresy in Rubens' The Miracles of Saint Francis Xavier
In 1617 Peter Paul Rubens painted the allegorical altarpiece, The Miracles of Saint Francis Xavier. Most of the represented events have been previously identified. However, the prominent foreground figure, a reclining man on the brink of death, seems to have been misinterpreted as a person raised from the dead. I propose instead that Rubens depicted an infidel cured by the missionary of bubonic plague, the illness being a manifestation of the man…
Archaeology (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Art history (1 work) · Environmental ethics (1 work) · Heresy (1 work) · Historical and Religious Studies of Rome (1 work) · History (1 work) · History (1 work) · Metaphor (1 work) · Philosophy (1 work)