Vision and the visionary in Raphael

Abstract

"Studies Raphael's images of supernatural phenomena, including apparitions and prophetic visions, within their contemporary artistic and religious contexts. Asks how a fundamentally naturalistic style of painting like that of the Italian Renaissance can accommodate representations of the supernatural without self-contradiction"--Provided by publisher.

Contents

Introduction. Making the invisible visible : Raphael and the development of early modern visionary imagery -- The philosophical eye : iconographies of the visual in the School of Athens -- Blindness and enlightenment : Saint Paul and the idea of the image in Raphael's Sistine tapestries -- The real and the imaginary -- Raphael's Transfiguration as visio-devotional program.