The origins of a miraculous image : Notes on the annunciation Fresco in SS. Annunziata in Florence
Husabø Oen, Maria LU
(2011)
In Konsthistorisk Tidskrift
80(1).
p.1-22
- Abstract
- The origins of early modern cult images are seldom easy to account for. Some of the images venerated in Italy in the Renaissance were already existing images which were suddenly activated by devotees claiming that the paintings were capable of performing miracles, while others were, according to circulating legends, ancient images painted by angels, St Luke, or even by a miracle. This article examines the mechanisms of religious devotion and the pictorial conception that allowed for such miraculous genesis legends to be valid accounts for the origin of an image in the Renaissance. The article focuses in particular on the Annunciation fresco in SS. Annunziata in Florence, which was one of the most powerful cult images in fifteenth and... (More)
- The origins of early modern cult images are seldom easy to account for. Some of the images venerated in Italy in the Renaissance were already existing images which were suddenly activated by devotees claiming that the paintings were capable of performing miracles, while others were, according to circulating legends, ancient images painted by angels, St Luke, or even by a miracle. This article examines the mechanisms of religious devotion and the pictorial conception that allowed for such miraculous genesis legends to be valid accounts for the origin of an image in the Renaissance. The article focuses in particular on the Annunciation fresco in SS. Annunziata in Florence, which was one of the most powerful cult images in fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in Tuscany. This image was subject for acheiropoetic legends and St Luke attributions appearing in written records long after the image had become a focal point for devotion. Despite the late dating of these accounts in relation to the veneration of the image, it is argued that they gave significant information on the image within the society that venerated it, and furthermore, that they can provide us with valuable knowledge today on how the origin and authenticity of the image was understood within its specific devotional context.
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