Research Catalog

Title

Religious poverty, visual riches : art in the Dominican churches of central Italy in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries / Joanna Cannon.

Author

Cannon, Joanna, 1951-

Publication

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]

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Description

xi, 444 pages : illustrations (some color), map; 29 cm

Subject

• Dominicans > Art collections
• Church decoration and ornament > Italy, Central > History > To 1500
• Dominican architecture > Italy, Central
• Christian art and symbolism > Italy, Central > Medieval, 500-1500
• Art and society > Italy, Central > History > To 1500
• Architecture and society > Italy, Central > History > To 1500

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The Salve Regina Procession and the Screen -- The Crocifixo Grande -- "Whose Image Is This?" The Virgin and the Ecclesia Laicorum -- Dominican Sancti and Beati in the Ecclesia Laicorum -- The Friars within the Choir Enclosure -- Choir Books before 1300 -- The Polyptych on the High Altar after 1300 -- The Adoration of the Cross: Men, Women and the Choir Enclosure -- Cloister and Chapter House: Images of the Order, for the Order -- Dominicans and the Personal Possession of Paintings -- Lay Burials and the Architectural Spaces of S. Caterina, Pisa -- Altar, Chapel and Altar-chapel -- Creating Images for Altars: The Friars and the Faithful Working Together -- Wall Paintings in the Ecclesia Laicorum: Order or Disorder? -- Sharing the Walls and Windows of the Cappella Maggiore -- S. Maria Novella: A Case Apart?

ISBN

• 9780300187656 (cl : alk. paper)
• 0300187653 (cl : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2013005142
• 40023217933

OCLC

• ocn827724470
• 827724470
• SCSB-5731186

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries