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Festive funerals in early modern Italy : the art and culture of conspicuous commemoration / Minou Schraven.
- Title
- Festive funerals in early modern Italy : the art and culture of conspicuous commemoration / Minou Schraven.
- Author
- Schraven, Minou
- Publication
- Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate Publishing Limited, [2014]
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| Text | Request in advance | GT3252.A2 S37 2014 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xvi, 320 pages; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "This book discusses a specific element of early modern funeral culture, namely funeral apparati: spectacular ephemeral decorations within church interiors on the occasion of festive requiem masses for the aristocracy."--Introduction, p. [1].
- Series Statement
- Visual culture in early modernity
- Uniform Title
- Visual culture in early modernity
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Negotiating Decorum. Funeral Ceremonies in Early Sixteenth-Century Rome -- Imperial Apotheosis. The Funeral Apparati of Charles V -- After Charles V. Funeral Apparati in Florence, Rome and Other Italian Cities -- Religious Festival Culture After Trent. From Rome to Borromeo's Milan, and Back Again -- Funeral Apparati of Cardinals in Early Modern Rome -- Papal Reburials and the Funeral Apparato of Sixtus V in S. Maria Maggiore -- Funeral Apparati in Rome at the End of the Sixteenth Century.
- ISBN
- 9780754665243 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0754665240 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2013012958
- OCLC
- 840934572
- SCSB-12685399
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library