Stigmatics and Visual Culture in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy

Dr Cordelia Warr is Senior Lecturer in Art History, University of Manchester, UK. She is the author of Dressing for Heaven (2010), and has co-edited Wounds in the Middle Ages (2013) with Anne Kirkham, Art and Architecture in Naples, 1266-1714 (2010) and The Church of Santa Maria Donna Regina (2004) with Janis Elliott, as well as special issues of the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library (2018) and the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art (2022) with Anne Dunlop.

• Acknowledgements, List of illustrations, 1. Introduction: Stigmata and Visual Culture, 2. Saint Francis of Assisi as Image, 3. Representing the Invisible: Saint Catherine of Siena's Stigmatization, 4. The Stigmatic Spectrum and the Visual Arts, 5.Gregorio Lombardelli, Invisibility, and the Representation of Saint Catherine of Siena's Stigmata, 6. Performing stigmata, 7. Painting, Printing, Sculpting, Forgery (and Washing), 8. Conclusion: The Timidity of the Visual Arts, Bibliography, Index