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Italian Renaissance Learning Resources
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Virgin and Child
Essays
Introduction
Saint Luke Paints the Virgin and Child: Genealogy of an Image
The Power of Icons
The Triumph of Images: Icons, Iconoclasm, and the Incarnation
Icons and Panel Painting in the West
Venice: Mundus Alter
Bellini’s Luminous Madonnas
Florence and the Renaissance
The Spectacle of Devotion: Civic Miracle-Workers
Images of the Virgin and Child at Home
Raphael’s Madonnas: Full of Grace
Notes
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Excerpts from the diary of Luca Landucci about the Impruenta
A wax ex-voto for the Virgin of Santa Maria in Carceri
A Florentine rails against an image of Saint John the Baptist
Savonarola on images
Advice for the use of religious images in childrearing
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