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Acting on faith : the Confraternity of the Gonfalone in Renaissance Rome / by Barbara Wisch and Nerida Newbigin.
- Title
- Acting on faith : the Confraternity of the Gonfalone in Renaissance Rome / by Barbara Wisch and Nerida Newbigin.
- Author
- Wisch, Barbara.
- Publication
- Philadelphia : Saint Joseph's University Press, c2013.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Newbigin, Nerida
- Description
- xxii, 512 p. : col. ill.; 32 cm.
- Series Statement
- Early modern Catholicism and the visual arts series ; v. 7
- Uniform Title
- Early modern Catholicism and the visual arts series; v. 7.
- Alternative Title
- Confraternity of the gonfalone in Renaissance Rome
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction: Setting the scene -- Prologue: Acts of consolidation -- Acts of faith: the statutes of 1495 and 1584 -- Acts "that befit women": sisters in the brotherhood -- In the public eye I: St. Lucy in the spotlight -- In the public eye II: visualizing Santa Lucia Nuova -- Virgo ex machina I: Santa Maria Maggiore -- Virgo ex machina II: Santa Maria in Aracoeli -- Change of scene: outside the walls At Santa Maria Annunziata -- Acting mercifully: shelter under the Virgin's mantle -- Enacting the passion: processions and plays -- A towering O: the Colosseum as theater -- Redacting the passion: print and performance -- Transacting faith: the passion play, the Monte di Pietà, and the Jews in 1539 -- Creating a new stage: the oratory as ritual space -- Acting on faith: the decoration of the Oratory of the Gonfalone.
- ISBN
- 9780916101749 (alk. paper)
- 0916101746 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2012020757
- OCLC
- 801810124
- SCSB-10622519
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library