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Ex`-vo´to (~töz)
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| The idea of offering, alluded to in the work's title, refers to a Spanish custom according to which women may bring dresses to church as donations, like ex-votos, in gratitude for some favor granted by the Virgin. Her effort to do this is sustained by buoyant prose and the seining of a wide array of sources, which include maps, hydrographic and maritime reports, agricultural surveys, engineering, surveying and government reports, and travelers' descriptions, along with letters, ex-votos, poetry, and postcards. In a mote theoretical essay, Karen-Edis Barzman defines early modern spectacles as illusionistic discursive fields in which power manifests itself, but in which it may also be contested, and illustrates her ideas by examining paintings by Masaccio and Correggio, the city-planning of Rome, and the placement of ex-votos in churches. |
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