Background
Webster, Susan Verdi was born on December 4, 1959 in Lafayette, Indiana, United States. Daughter of Grady Linder and Barbara Ann Webster.
( For nearly five centuries, lay religious groups through...)
For nearly five centuries, lay religious groups throughout the Spanish-speaking world have staged elaborate public processions commemorating the events of Christ's passion during Holy Week. In the Golden Age, such processions featured extraordinarily lifelike sculpted images that were naturalistically painted, elaborately clothed and adorned, and surrounded by convincing stage properties and scenography--all of which combined to create a profound impression on spectators. Long dismissed as a minor form of popular art, these polychrome wood sculptures emerge from this book as a unique genre, one that can be best understood within its ritual context. Here, Susan Verdi Webster explores the Holy Week processions of penitential confraternities in Golden-Age Seville, for which many of Spain's greatest sculptors created some of the most illusionistic works ever. She demonstrates how the pivotal role of the sculptures in procession transformed them from carved wooden objects to catalysts for intense spiritual and emotional experiences shared by spectators in the streets. Drawing on extensive archival evidence and contemporary chronicles, Webster is among the first to examine in depth Spanish processional sculpture, its patrons, and its ritual function. Her inquiry wends through a kaleidoscopic variety of arenas--artistic, religious, social, cultural, and political--to provide a fascinating perspective on popular religious devotion in Golden-Age Spain and on a previously undervalued dimension of Spanish sculpture.
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Webster, Susan Verdi was born on December 4, 1959 in Lafayette, Indiana, United States. Daughter of Grady Linder and Barbara Ann Webster.
Bachelor, Reed College, Portland, Oregon, 1982; Master of Arts, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 1986; Doctor of Philosophy, University Texas, 1992.
Instructor University Texas, Austin, 1991. Assistant professor art history University St. Thomas, St. Paul, since 1992. Scholar/consultant Yellowcat Productions, Washington, 1993-1994.
( For nearly five centuries, lay religious groups through...)
Member College Art Association, Renaissance Society, Society for Confraternity Studies, Latin America Studies Association, American Society Hispanic History Studies, Association for Latin America Art.
