Blessed and beautiful: picturing the saints

Contents

1. The Standing of Mary -- Opus Formosior -- 2. A Saint for All Seasons -- Taking Liberties with John the Baptist -- 3. Recovering Mary Magdalene and the Dignity of Woman -- Apostola Apostolorum -- 4. Manliness and Saintliness -- The Cases of Mark, Sebastian, and Rocco -- 5. The Pearls of Saint Lawrence -- What Ruskin Sees When He Looks at a Picture -- 6. Imagining Augustine Imagining -- Or A Theologian's Toothache -- 7. Sodoma's Saint Benedict -- Out in the Cloister -- 8. Further Considerations of The Holy Stigmata of Saint Francis -- Where Was Brother Leo? -- 9. The Saint Who Lost Her Head -- Or who's Afraid of Catherine of Siena? -- 10. Saints Fair and Fearsome -- Louis of Toulouse and Bernardino da Siena.