Silver Faces in Late Medieval Sculpture: Just How Charismatic, Just How Lifelike? Sculpture and painting in the late Middle Ages tends to be written as a narrative of increasing verisimilitude and lifelikeness – and indeed, when played out across paint and wood, the naturalistic representation of human presence (charismatic, bodily, idealized, and gruesome alike) appears … Continue reading Joseph Salvatore Ackley will lecture