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Augustinian art and meditation in Renaissance Florence : the choir altarpieces of Santo Spirito 1480-1510 / by Antonia Fondaras.

Title
Augustinian art and meditation in Renaissance Florence : the choir altarpieces of Santo Spirito 1480-1510 / by Antonia Fondaras.
Author
Fondaras, Antonia,
Publication
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]
Supplementary Content
1850-9999

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Description
xiv, 370 pages ; illustrations (chiefly color); 25 cm.
Summary
"In The Choir Altarpieces of Santo Spirito, 1480-1510, Antonia Fondaras reunites the fifteenth-century altarpieces painted by Botticelli, Piero di Cosimo, Filippino Lippi, and other masters for the choir of the Augustinian church of Santo Spirito in Florence. Departing from a conventional focus on artist and patron, the author illuminates the engagement of the Augustinian Hermit friars with the composition and iconography of these pictures, and discusses how they were used to fashion the choir into a space suited to the friars' institutional and spiritual ideals. Fondaras includes a close reading of the choir's most compelling and original altarpieces, which were grounded in the writings of Augustine and provided a focal point for the friars' sophisticated meditative practices"--
Series Statement
  • Brill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; volume 308
  • Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history ; volume 42
Uniform Title
  • Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 308.
  • Brill's studies in intellectual history. Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history ; v. 42.
Subject
  • 1400-1499
  • Altarpieces, Italian > Florence > 15th century
  • Altarpieces, Italian
  • Altarpieces, Renaissance > Florence
  • Altarpieces, Renaissance
  • Art patronage
  • Augustinian art
  • Augustinians > Art patronage
  • Augustinians
  • Ikonographie
  • Italy > Florence
  • Malerei
  • Retabel
  • Santo Spirito (Church : Florence, Italy)
  • Santo Spirito Florenz
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages [317]-343) and index.
Terms of Use (note)
  • Current copyright fee: GBP22.00
Contents
Saint Augustine, the Augustinian Hermits, and the Convent of Santo Spirito -- The Santo Spirito Choir and the Presence of the Friars -- The Santo Spirito Format : Fashioning Sacred Space -- Discursive Meditation and Botticelli's Bardi Altarpiece -- Hope and the Virtues : Piero di Cosimo's The Visitation with Saints Nicholas of Bari and Anthony Abbot -- Caritas and Family : Filippino Lippi's Nerli Altarpiece -- Faith and the Mirror of God : Agnolo del Mazziere's The Holy Trinity with Saints Mary Magdalen and Catherine of Alexandria.
ISBN
  • 9789004401143
  • 9004401148
  • 9789004419896 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2019048186
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries