Resumen de The Child Miracles in Simone Martini's Beato Agostino Novello Altarpiece
The writer discusses the child miracles depicted in Simone Martini's early-14th-century Beato Agostino Novello altarpiece (Pinacoteca Nazionale, Siena, Italy). A close reading of the miracle scenes, informed by references to theological, medical, and artistic sources, sheds light on the meaning that the images of childhood would have had for local viewers. The altarpiece offered consolation to bereaved and anxious parents through the miraculous interventions of Augustinian holy man Agostino Novello, but it did so within the context of active religious faith and almsgiving.
