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Visual cultures of foundling care in Renaissance Italy / Diana Bullen Presciutti.
- Title
- Visual cultures of foundling care in Renaissance Italy / Diana Bullen Presciutti.
- Author
- Presciutti, Diana Bullen
- Publication
- Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2015]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | N7640 .P735 2015 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xvi, 276 pages; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "The first book to consider the visual culture of foundling hospitals in Renaissance Italy, this study looks beyond the textual evidence to demonstrate that the institutional identities of foundling hospitals were articulated by means of a wide variety of visual forms, including book illumination, altarpieces, fresco cycles, institutional insignia, processional standards, prints, and reliquaries."--Provided by publisher.
- Series Statement
- Visual culture in early modernity
- Uniform Title
- Visual culture in early modernity
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction: Save the Children -- Framing Foundling Care in Renaissance Italy -- Emblematizing the 'New' Charity: The Swaddled Infant Segno and the Dedicated Foundling Hospital -- Dead Infants, Cruel Mothers, and Heroic Popes at the Hospital of Santo Spirito, Rome -- Saving the (Holy) Innocents at the Ospedale degli Innocenti, Florence -- The 'New' Charity Grows Old: Foundling Care in the Sixteenth Century -- Afterlives of the Swaddled Infant Segno.
- ISBN
- 9781472457653
- 147245765X
- LCCN
- ^^2015024456
- OCLC
- 911518736
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library