Description:
A study of a 15th-century Piedmontese artist and priest and his cycle of paintings on the passion of Christ that adorn the walls of the pilgrimage sanctuary of Notre-Dame des Fontaines
Brief description:
Véronique Plesch is associate professor and chair of the Department of Art at Colby College in Waterville, Maine.
Review Quotes:
"With exhaustive descriptions and analyses, the author considers this little-studied region and artist, his sermonic rhetoric, and interwoven pictorial sources. According to the author, Canavesio drew upon his experience as a priest to manipulate form and content, rhetorically emphasizing confession, repentance, and the Good Death . . . this study remains a thorough, highly organized, and well-observed contribution to the study of this Piedmontese artist." --Renaissance Quarterly