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‎Holy Children and Liminality in Early Modern Art‎

‎, Brepols, 2025 Hardback, Pages: 231, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:8 b/w, 91 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503586984.‎

‎Summary Children play a key role in the visual cultures of early modern Europe. On the one hand, they are central figures because of the Christian belief in a divine embodiment as a child; on the other, since children were assigned with values of mediation and transitions between different worlds, liminality became one of the ideas that structured the extensive spectrum of their roles in premodern imaginations. By fostering a conversation between art historians from different backgrounds and specializations, this volume departs from the conventional focus on representations of children as evidence for inquiries into childhood to explore their status as (normative) images. Starting from the ancient putto and liminal representations of children, before moving on to holy children, the Christ Child or child martyrs at the crossroad of religious conflict, the eight essays in this book seek to grasp the many different ambiguous meanings carried by objects representing children and the ways in which artists and viewers reflected on the concepts of childhood and liminality between the fourteenth and the nineteenth centuries across different European trajectories: from Ravenna to Sarajevo, from Milan to Mechelen, and beyond. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Holy Children, Liminal Bodies: An Introduction Chiara Franceschini, Cloe Cavero de Carondelet Chapter 1 Fragments of Desire: On the Ravenna Thrones and their Multiple Contexts of Reuse Chiara Franceschini Chapter 2 Baptising the Putto: Transmigration of the Infantile Forms in Sacred Settings between the Adriatic and the Alps Jasenka Gudelj Chapter 3 Prudence, Memory and the Liminal Child in the "Medieval Housebook" Andrea Pearson Chapter 4 From Sacred to Secular: The Infants Christ and Saint John the Baptist Embracing Nelleke de Vries Chapter 5 Re-thinking so-called 'Holy Dolls': The Performative and Devotional Context of Christ Child Sculptures in the Early Italian Renaissance Patricia Simons Chapter 6 Child and God: The Body of the Christ Child in Medieval and Early Modern Italian Sculptures Fabien Lacouture Chapter 7 The Cult of the Holy Child from Sarajevo: Sanctity between Official Orthodoxy and Multiconfessional Piety Vuk Dautovi? Chapter 8 From Norwich to Nagasaki: Hieronymus Wierix and the Iconography of Crucified Child Martyrs Cloe Cavero de Carondelet Bibliography Indexes‎