medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Laura Jacobus wrote:
>
> I'd be very interested to know of what's been written on the idea of
> the moral eye- presumably this is the same idea as that written about
> by Michael Baxandall (Painting and Experience..), where I seem to
> recall he discussed a devotional text on the subject, (possibly Peter
> of Limoges' one- I don't have Baxandall handy to check). Was this an
> idea which passed into general currency, and round about when does it
> first crop up? My interest is a little vague, but I think I may be
> finding reflections of the notion in art c.1300, and would like to
> know a bit more
Laura is quite right - Baxandall has a section (chapter II, section 11) on
'The Moral Eye' (pp.103-108 of the 1988 edition) and quotes Peter of Limoges
in the Italian translation of 1496 (text on p.173).
John Briggs
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