A printed icon in early modern Italy : Forlì's Madonna of the fire /

A printed icon in early modern Italy : Forlì's Madonna of the fire /

In 1428, a devastating fire destroyed a schoolhouse in the northern Italian city of Forlì, leaving only a woodcut of the Madonna and Child that had been tacked to the classroom wall. The people of Forlì carried that print, now known as the Madonna of the Fire, into their cathedral, where two centuri...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pon, Lisa
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Mary, > Blessed Virgin, Saint > Art.
Jesus Christ > Art.
Madonna of the fire.
Wood-engraving, Italian > 15th century.
Icons > Cult > Italy > Forlì.
HISTORY / Europe / General.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Thing: 1. Iconography: Madonna and child; 2. Imprint: paper, print, and matrix; Part II. Emplacement: 3. Miracle: the fire of February 4, 1428; 4. Domestic display: Lombardino da Ripetrosa's schoolhouse; 5. Ecclesiastical enshrinement: the cathedral of Forlì; Part III. Mobilities: 6. Moving in the city: the translation of 1636; 7. Mobile in print: the procession on paper; 8. Multiplied: the Madonna of the Fire in Forlì and beyond.