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Author Muller, Welleda, author

Title Representations of elderly people in the scenes of Jesus' childhood in Tuscan paintings, 14th-16th centuries : iamges of intergeneration relationships / by Welleda Muller
Edition 1st unabridged
Published Newcastle up on Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Summary This book is the result of a two-year postdoctoral research fellowship at the Kunsthistorisches Institut (Max Planck Institute) in Florence, Italy, in collaboration with the MaxNetAging Research School in Rostock, Germany. Adopting an innovative approach, it leads the reader through early modern Tuscan paintings to discover a new vision of intergenerational relationships. By studying both the images of elderly people in the scenes of Jesus' Childhood and the primary sources dealing with old age, the book reveals how old age was perceived at the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the R
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Jesus Christ -- Art.
SUBJECT Jesus Christ fast
Subject Painting, Italian -- Italy
Painting -- Italy -- Tuscany
Older people in art.
Renaissance art.
Interdisciplinary studies.
Age groups: the elderly.
ART -- History -- General.
Older people in art
Painting
Painting, Italian
Italy
Italy -- Tuscany
Genre/Form Art
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781443892773
1443892777