Confraternities and the Visual Arts in Renaissance Italy
Author: Barbara Wisch
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13:
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Confraternities and the Visual Arts in Renaissance Italy
Author: Barbara Wisch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-09-15
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781107403406
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 2000, Confraternities and the Visual Arts in Renaissance Italy: Ritual, Spectacle, Image was the first book to consider the role of Italian confraternities in the patronage of art. Eleven interdisciplinary essays analyze confraternal painting, sculpture, architecture, and dramatic spectacles by documenting the unique historical and ritual contexts in which they were experienced. Exploring the evolution of devotional practices, the roles of women and youths, the age's conception of charity, and the importance of confraternities in civic politics and urban design, this book offers illuminating approaches to one of the most dynamic forms of corporate patronage in early modern Italy.
Visual Cultures of Foundling Care in Renaissance Italy
Author: DianaBullen Presciutti
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 1351537482
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe social problem of infant abandonment captured the public?s imagination in Italy during the fifteenth century, a critical period of innovation and development in charitable discourses. As charity toward foundlings became a political priority, the patrons and supporters of foundling hospitals turned to visual culture to help them make their charitable work understandable to a wide audience. Focusing on four institutions in central Italy that possess significant surviving visual and archival material, Visual Cultures of Foundling Care in Renaissance Italy examines the discursive processes through which foundling care was identified, conceptualized, and promoted. The first book to consider the visual culture of foundling hospitals in Renaissance Italy, this study looks beyond the textual evidence to demonstrate that the institutional identities of foundling hospitals were articulated by means of a wide variety of visual forms, including book illumination, altarpieces, fresco cycles, institutional insignia, processional standards, prints, and reliquaries. The author draws on fields as diverse as art history, childhood studies, the history of charity, Renaissance studies, gender studies, sociology, and the history of religion to elucidate the pivotal role played by visual culture in framing and promoting the charitable succor of foundlings.
Acting on Faith
Author: Barbara Wisch
Publisher: St Josephs University Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9780916101749
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLove and Death in Renaissance Italy
Author: Thomas V. Cohen
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010-01-15
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 0226112608
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGratuitous sex. Graphic violence. Lies, revenge, and murder. Before there was digital cable or reality television, there was Renaissance Italy and the courts in which Italian magistrates meted out justice to the vicious and the villainous, the scabrous and the scandalous. Love and Death in Renaissance Italy retells six piquant episodes from the Italian court just after 1550, as the Renaissance gave way to an era of Catholic reformation. Each of the chapters in this history chronicles a domestic drama around which the lives of ordinary Romans are suddenly and violently altered. You might read the gruesome murder that opens the book—when an Italian noble takes revenge on his wife and her bastard lover as he catches them in delicto flagrante—as straight from the pages of Boccaccio. But this tale, like the other stories Cohen recalls here, is true, and its recounting in this scintillating work is based on assiduous research in court proceedings kept in the state archives in Rome. Love and Death in Renaissance Italy contains stories of a forbidden love for an orphan nun, of brothers who cruelly exact a will from their dying teenage sister, and of a malicious papal prosecutor who not only rapes a band of sisters, but turns their shambling father into a pimp! Cohen retells each cruel episode with a blend of sly wit and warm sympathy and then wraps his tales in ruminations on their lessons, both for the history of their own time and for historians writing today. What results is a book at once poignant and painfully human as well as deliciously entertaining.
Art and the Augustinian Order in Early Renaissance Italy
Author: Anne Dunlop
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-12-05
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 1351957163
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe rise of the mendicant orders in the later Middle Ages coincided with rapid and dramatic shifts in the visual arts. The mendicants were prolific patrons, relying on artworks to instruct and impress their diverse lay congregations. Churches and chapels were built, and new images and iconographies developed to propagate mendicant cults. But how should the two phenomena be related? How much were these orders actively responsible for artistic change, and how much did they simply benefit from it? To explore these questions, Art and the Augustinian Order in Early Renaissance Italy looks at art in the formative period of the Augustinian Hermits, an order with a particularly difficult relation to art. As a first detailed study of visual culture in the Augustinian order, this book will be a basic resource, making available previously inaccessible material, discussing both well-known and more neglected artworks, and engaging with fundamental methodological questions for pre-modern art and church history, from the creation of religious iconographies to the role of gender in art.
Early Modern Confraternities in Europe and the Americas
Author: Christopher F. Black
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780754651741
DOWNLOAD EBOOKScholars have long recognized the significant role that confraternities, or lay brotherhoods, played in the religious life of medieval and early modern Catholicism. Taking a broad chronological and geographical approach, this collection of essays addresses the varied and fluid nature of confraternities and their relationship to wider society.
A Companion to Medieval and Early Modern Confraternities
Author: Konrad Eisenbichler
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019-02-04
Total Pages: 491
ISBN-13: 9004392912
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Companion to Medieval and Early Modern Confraternities presents confraternities as fundamentally important venues for the acquisition of spiritual riches, material wealth, and social capital in early modern Europe and Post-Conquest America.
Visions of Holiness
Author: Andrew Ladis
Publisher: University of Georgia, Georgia Museum of Art
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSpace, Place, and Motion: Locating Confraternities in the Late Medieval and Early Modern City
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2017-04-11
Total Pages: 470
ISBN-13: 9004339523
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSpace, Place, and Motion: Locating Confraternities in the Late Medieval and Early Modern City offers the first sustained comparative examination of the relationship between confraternal life and the spaces of the late medieval and early modern city. By considering cities large (Rome) and small (Aalst) in regions as disparate as Ireland and Mexico, the essays collected here seek to uncover the commonalities and differences in confraternal practice as they played out on the urban stage. From the candlelit oratory to the bustling piazza, from the hospital ward to the festal table, from the processional route to the execution grounds, late medieval and early modern cities, this interdisciplinary book contends, were made up of fluid and contested ‘confraternal spaces.’ Contributors are: Kira Maye Albinsky, Meryl Bailey, Cormac Begadon, Caroline Blondeau-Morizot, Danielle Carrabino, Andrew Chen, Ellen Decraene, Laura Dierksmeier, Ellen Alexandra Dooley, Douglas N. Dow, Anu Mänd, Rebekah Perry, Pamela A.V. Stewart, Arie van Steensel, and Barbara Wisch.
