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Penny Howell Jolly offers a compelling and provocative reading of a single well-known work of art: the stunning mosaics that illustrate the story of Creation in the church of San Marco in Venice. Jolly studies the mosaics as a reinterpretation of the foundational myth of divine creation and male and female roles, and thus as a social document that reveals a great deal about the perception of relations between the sexes in thirteenth-century Venice. In the end, she sees the mosaic as a highly misogynist revision of the Cotton Genesis directed toward a thirteenth-century audience. The book incorporates recent studies in narratology and feminist theology, as well as a discussion of how a medieval audience, unschooled in reading and writing, was visually literate and able to "read" these images.

Mosaics, Medieval --- Mosaics, Italian --- Christian art and symbolism --- Architecture --- Art, Architecture & Applied Arts --- Adam --- Eve --- Basilica di San Marco (Venice, Italy) --- Bible. --- Pictorial illustrations. --- Italian mosaics --- Art, Christian --- Art, Ecclesiastical --- Arts in the church --- Christian symbolism --- Ecclesiastical art --- Symbolism and Christian art --- חוה --- Ḥaṿah --- Ḥawwāh --- Khavah --- حواء --- Ḥawwāʼ --- אדם --- آدم --- Адам --- Adem --- Adda --- Aadam --- Αδάμ --- Adán --- Adamo --- 아담 --- Adamu --- Ādams --- アダム --- Adami --- Addamu --- Aatami --- Aadama --- 亞當 --- Yadang --- St. Mark's Cathedral (Venice, Italy) --- Venice. --- San Marco (Basilica : Venice, Italy) --- Saint-Marc (Basilica : Venice, Italy) --- Markusdom von Venedig --- Markuskirche (Venice, Italy) --- Basilica of San Marco (Venice, Italy) --- Be-reshit (Book of the Old Testament) --- Bereshit (Book of the Old Testament) --- Bytie (Book of the Old Testament) --- Chʻangsegi (Book of the Old Testament) --- Genesis (Book of the Old Testament) --- Sifr al-Takwīn --- Takwīn (Book of the Old Testament) --- Religious art --- Symbolism --- Church decoration and ornament --- Mosaics [Medieval ] --- Italy --- Venice (Italy) --- Mosaics [Italian ] --- Bible. O.T. Genesis --- Illustrations --- Adam (Biblical figure) --- Art --- Eve (Biblical figure) --- آدم‎ --- Art. --- Illustrations. --- Symbolism in art