Trecento Devotion and Visuality: A Reliquary Panel by Tommaso da Modena

摘要: By contextualizing a reliquary panel by Tommaso da Modena within the interrelated artistic, scientific, and religious trends practices of fourteenth-century Italy, better understanding ways such devotional aid was received comes to light. This article considers how panel’s material, composition, decorative techniques could have resonated with aspects Trecento visuality devotion (e.g., production eyeglasses, debates about Beatific Vision, Ugo Panciera’s Treatise on Perfection , Franciscan theology light). It pays particular attention incorporation verre eglomise, technique that experienced significant revival during which recommended Cennino Cennini's for decorating reliquaries. Such an investigation demonstrates Tommaso’s panel, others like it, capitalized growing interest in sense sight optics affect spiritual insight.