Worlds Within: Opening the Medieval Shrine Madonna

by Elina Gertsman

In Worlds Within, Elina Gertsman investigates the Shrine Madonnas, or Vierges ouvrantes--sculptures that conceal within their bodies complex carved and/or painted iconographies. The Shrine Madonna emerged in Europe at the end of the 1200s and reached a peak of popularity during the following three centuries. Gertsman argues that the appearance of these objects--predicated as they are on the dynamic of concealment, revelation, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271064013
• ISBN13: 9780271064017
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 3.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.2" x 10.3"