Death, torture and the broken body in European art, 1300-1650

Contents

Spectacular unmaking: creative destruction, destructive creativity / John R. Decker -- Guido da Siena and the four modes of violence / Assaf Pinkus -- The suffering Christ and visual mnemonics in Netherlandish devotions / Mitzi Kirkland-Ives -- A chopped-off head on a golden plate : Jan Mostaert's Head of Saint John the Baptist on a plate surrounded by angels / Soetkin Vanhauwaert -- Reviving martyrdom: interpretations of the catacombs in Cesare Baronio's patronage / Kelley Magill -- The authorizations of torture: John Bale writing Anne Askew / Natalia Khomenko -- Killing and dying at the Death of Decius Mus / Renzo Baldasso -- Dracula, the Turks and the rhetoric of impaling in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Germany / Heather Madar -- Execution by image: visual spectacularism and iconoclasm in late medieval and early modern Europe / Allie Terry-Fritsch -- A shameful spectacle: Claes Jansz. Visscher's 1623 news prints of executed Dutch 'Arminians' / Maureen Warren -- Closing thoughts / John R. Decker.