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December 1, 1998
Penny Howell Jolly Made in God’s Image? Eve and Adam in the Genesis Mosaics at San Marco, Venice Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. 155 pp.; 12 color ills.; 34 b/w ills. $45.00 (0520205376)
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CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.1998.3

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For decades the rich, dense heritage of medieval and Renaissance Venice has offered historians, art historians, and social scientists an array of subjects and an evolving methodological arsenal for their analysis. Building on the work of previous generations, recent scholars have expanded our understanding of the manner in which a society can use its visual culture to construct a variety of identities: civic, religious, class, familial, and even individual, conveying messages that were normative as...