Narrative Threads: The Pienza Cope's Embroidered Vitae and Their Ritual Setting

• Autores: Wendy R. Larson
• Localización: Studies in iconography, ISSN 0148-1029, Nº. 24, 2003, págs. 139-163
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The Pienza Cope (Museo diocesano di Pienza) is the unique surviving instance of the presentation of more than two narratives and exclusively female lives. Created between 1310 and 1330, the Pienza Cope represents the height of the opus anglicanum style's lush patterns, vivid colors, and use of precious gold thread, pearls, and gems. Its decorative scheme is composed of scenes from the lives of three holy women: the Virgin Mary, Saint Margaret of Antioch, and Saint Catherine of Alexandria. The writer goes on to examine the symbolic significance of vestments as discussed in treatises for the clergy who would be wearing them and poems written for the members of a congregation who would be viewing them, and consider understandings of the association between the Virgin and Saints Margaret and Catherine to suggest ways in which the cope's narrative content might have been read by those viewing it and the person wearing it in its ritual setting.