Augustine in Iconography

Contents: Frederick Van Fleteren/Joseph C. Schnaubelt: Prolegomena - Frederick Van Fleteren/Joseph C. Schnaubelt: Literary Sources for the Iconography of Saint Augustine - Joseph C. Schnaubelt/Frederick Van Fleteren (transl.): Joannes Stiltingh: The Account in the Acta Sanctorum of the Body of St. Augustine - Silvia Lusuardi Siena: Il complesso episcopale di Milano e il battesimo di Agostino: un punto di vista archeologico - George Radan: The Basilica Pacis of Hippo - Robert J. Rowland, Jr.: The Sojourn of the Body of St. Augustine in Sardinia - Benedict Hackett: San Pietro in Ciel d'oro, Pavia - Ennio Brunori: L'Eremo della Trinità "de Centumcellis" - Annamaria Ducci: L'Eremo di Rupecava nei Monti Pisani: Tracce per una definizione di "storia globale" - Benedict Hackett: The Augustinian Hermitage of Lecceto - Diane Cole Ahl: The Life of Saint Augustine in San Gimignano - Edmund Colledge: The Augustine Screen in Carlisle Cathedral - George T. Radan: The Lecceto Frescoes: The Augustinian Cycle - Mark W. Sullivan: Tito Troja: An Augustine Cycle in Philadelphia - Patricia Fortini Brown: Carpaccio's St. Augustine in His Study: A Portrait Within a Portrait - Meredith J. Gill: "Remember Me at the Altar of the Lord": Saint Monica's Gift to Rome - Kenneth B. Steinhauser: Augustin moralisé: Some Observations on Florence, Laurenziana, Plut. 12, Cod. 17 - Louise Marshall: Augustinian Exegesis in the Old Testament Cycle of the Chiesa del Tau, Pistoia - Charles R. Morscheck: Augustinian Influences in the Iconography of the Certosa di Pavia - Margaret Flansburg: The South Chapel Fresco Cycle of Sant'Agostino, Fabriano - Margaret Flansburg: The Sacristy Frescoes of Sant'Agostino, Montefalco.

The Editors: Joseph C. Schnaubelt, OSA and Frederick Van Fleteren of the Augustinian Historical Institute at Villanova University are the general editors of Collectanea Augustiniana. In addition, they have edited several volumes on Anselm of Canterbury and have contributed various essays to these and other volumes.

"Augustine left behind five million words of his writings - writings that give us one kind of vivid sense of his person. But it was left to following generations to turn him back into a visible presence of a sort with the tools of the visual arts. 'Augustine in Iconography' is that rarity of scholarly works, an almost completely original book. It begins with an exemplary assemblage of the source materials on which later tradition erected its imaginations of Augustine and his life. There follows a handsomely illustrated and remarkably comprehensive collection of studies of the major artifacts and traditions that gave visual form to the image of Augustine through the Middle Ages and into modern times. The result is a book equally of great use to the student of Augustine and the student of art history, but one so well conceived and produced as to be of great interest to a wide range of readers." (James O'Donnell, University of Pennsylvania, and world-renowned Augustine scholar)
"This extraordinary volume celebrates Augustine in the history, historical imagination, and 'imagery' of the Church across sixteen centuries. From the introduction by the editors - an indispensable repertory of literary sources underlying iconographical representations of the Saint-through the archeological and monographic studies that follow, and on to the fascinating hypotheses of Augustinian 'exegesis' and 'influence' in programs not explicitly illustrating the Bishop of Hippo's life, 'Augustine in Iconography' takes a fundamental step beyond the chief earlier work on the subject." (Rev. Timothy Verdon, Consultor, Pontifical Commission for the Cultural Heritage of the Church)
"The latest volume of 'Collectanea Augustiniana', Augustine in Iconography: History and Legend' is a valuable collection of complementary studies. These essays are useful for understanding Augustine's persona in the Middle Ages and Renaissance and for assessing the perennial impact of his thought. The introduction