\Art 254 Life

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\Art 254Life Afterlife in Italian Renaissance
Art

• Mysticism

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• Passional of Abbess Kunigunde,
• Bohemia, 1314, The mystical embrace
• Christ with the human soul

Canticum Canticorum, 1470-75, Netherlands
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Master IAM van Zwoll, The Lactation of St
Bernard, c. 1480-85, engraving
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• Paolo di Giovanni Fei, Mystic Marriage of Saint
  Catherine, late 14th century.

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French ivory diptych, c. 1260-70
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• Vision of Saint Bernard, Germany, 14th century

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Upper Rhine, Christ and St John, c. 1330-40 (35.4
cm)
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Bonaventura Berlinghieri, Pescia, 1235
St Francis and the crucifix of St Damian Assisi
fresco
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Biblia pauperum. Fifteenth-century
Blockbook. The Annunciation flanked by
God cursing the serpent and Gideon kneeling
before his fleece. See Brian E. Daley, The
Closed Garden and the Sealed Fountain Song
of Songs 412 in the Late Medieval Iconography of
Mary, p. 270-71.