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Images of Miraculous Healing in the Early Modern Netherlands explores the ways in which paintings and prints of biblical miracles shaped viewers’ approaches to physical and sensory impairments and bolstered their belief in supernatural healing and charitable behavior. Drawing upon a vast range of sources, Barbara Kaminska demonstrates that visual imagery held a central place in premodern disability discourses, and that the exegesis of New Testament miracle stories determined key attitudes toward the sick and the poor. Addressed to middle-class collectors, many of the images analyzed in this study have hitherto been neglected by art historians.
Link to book presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79jHEmTOKnU
Link to book presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79jHEmTOKnU
Price: $184.00
Pages: 268
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Brill’s Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History
Publication Date:
14 October 2021
ISBN: 9789004420564
Format: Hardcover
"Drawing from an impressive range of visual and textual sources, Kaminska’s book provides a stimulating examination of Christ’s healing miracles together with early modern Netherlandish attitudes about infirmity and charity." - Jeffrey Chipps Smith, University of Texas at Austin, in: Journal of Jesuit Studies, Vol. 9, No. 3 (2022), pp. 472–475
"Images of Miraculous Healing presents analyses of works of art that have not been widely studied by historians of Netherlandish art. Just as importantly, it also offers insights into early modern discourses of disability, medicine, and charity. The author has amassed a wide range of visual, religious, medical, and literary sources, which she marshaled effectively to build her arguments. The book is a valuable contribution not only to art history, but also to the study of social, cultural, and religious history of the early modern Netherlands." - Angela Ho, George Mason University, in: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 76, No. 4 (Winter 2023), pp. 1483–1485
"Images of Miraculous Healing presents analyses of works of art that have not been widely studied by historians of Netherlandish art. Just as importantly, it also offers insights into early modern discourses of disability, medicine, and charity. The author has amassed a wide range of visual, religious, medical, and literary sources, which she marshaled effectively to build her arguments. The book is a valuable contribution not only to art history, but also to the study of social, cultural, and religious history of the early modern Netherlands." - Angela Ho, George Mason University, in: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 76, No. 4 (Winter 2023), pp. 1483–1485
Barbara Kaminska is Assistant Professor of Art History at Sam Houston State University. She has published extensively on Netherlandish painting and print culture, and is the author of Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Religious Art for the Urban Community (Brill, 2019).