Mitchell B. Merback

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Mitchell B. Merback


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Mitchell B. Merback is professor of the history of art at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of The Thief, the Cross and the Wheel: Pain and the Spectacle of Punishment in Medieval and Renaissance Europe (1999); Pilgrimage and Pogrom: Violence, Memory, and Visual Culture at the Host-Miracle Shrines of Germany and Austria (2013); and Perfection's Therapy: An Essay on Albrecht Dürer's Melencolia I (2017). Recently awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship; he is investigating the role of tragic recognition as a motif and metatheme in Christian art before 1600. ...more

Average rating: 4.1 · 49 ratings · 2 reviews · 5 distinct works
The Thief, the Cross and th...

4.13 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 1999 — 9 editions
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Perfection's Therapy: An Es...

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Beyond the Yellow Badge: An...

4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions
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Pilgrimage and Pogrom: Viol...

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2013
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RB-Picturing History

0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2014
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