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Christ Child Creator

David S. Areford. "Christ Child Creator." In Quid est sacramentum? Visual Representation of Sacred Mysteries in Early Modern Europe, 1400-1700, edited by Walter Melion, Elizabeth Carson Pastan, and Lee Palmer Wandel. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2020: 456-493.
This essay explores several fifteenth-century woodcuts of the Christ Child in relation to the so-called Proleptic Passion, the theme of the Child of Sorrows, and the subtle ways in which the images collapse time.
Relevant research areas: Western Europe, Renaissance, Relief printing