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June 3, 2008
Véronique Plesch Painter and Priest: Giovanni Canavesio’s Visual Rhetoric and the Passion Cycle at La Brigue Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006. 488 pp.; 123 color ills.; 33 b/w ills. Cloth $55.00 (9780268038885)
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CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2008.53

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Véronique Plesch’s Painter and Priest: Giovanni Canavesio’s Visual Rhetoric and the Passion Cycle at La Brigue provides a detailed iconographic study of the Passion cycle painted by Giovanni Canavesio in the pilgrimage chapel of Notre-Dame-des-Fontaines at La Brigue, an Alpine village in what is now France. Plesch provides ample context for the La Brigue cycle in terms of Savoyard Passion cycles in general, and she discusses in detail in both the text and an extensive...