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Art and piety in the female religious communities of Renaissance Italy : iconography, space, and the religious woman's perspective

Title: Art and piety in the female religious communities of Renaissance Italy : iconography, space, and the religious woman's perspective / Anabel Thomas.
Author: Thomas, Anabel.
Publication: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
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xxiv, 406 p. : ill. (some col.); 29 cm.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-395) and index.

Contents

Part I. The Social function of the institution. Partial and impartial evidence ; Female religious communities characterized ; Issues of gender: an Augustinian view. -- Part II. The Spatial dimension. The architectural development of the conventual complex ; Plans - distinctions drawn in space ; Inventories and conventual chronicles - art recorded in space ; Visual distinctions and the demarcation of space. -- Part III. Art and space. Distinctive imagery in the private and public sphere ; Franciscan tertiaries (i): Sant́ Anna at Foligno ; Franciscan tertiaries (ii): Sant́ Onofrio in Florence ; Tracking change in conventual imagery: images relocated and altered ; Re-assessment of conventual imagery: role of suppression documents. -- Part IV: Art and ritual. The politics of display ; A Dominican angle: San Domenico del Maglio in Florence ; Varying degrees of emphasis on titular saints ; The nature of gaze ; Hierarchies within the establishment: San Niccolò in Prato ; The resonance of time and experience: varying patterns of behaviour ; Communication. -- Part V. Perspectives on conventual patronage. Commissioning bodies: insiders, outsiders and less familiar assides ; Frameworks of association.

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