Main entry:

Gisolfi, Diana.

Title & Author:

The rule, the Bible, and the council : the library of the Benedictine Abbey at Praglia / Diana Gisolfi, Staale Sinding-Larsen.

Publication:

Seattle : Published by College Art Association in association with University of Washington Press, 1998.

Description:

xiii, 200 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 29 cm.

Series:

Monograph on the fine arts ; v. 55

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-132) and index.
I. Introduction -- II. The Library Then and Now: Reconstructing the Cinquecento Room -- III. The Benedictine Tradition of Books -- IV. The Ceiling and Wall Paintings in the Praglia Library and Other Benedictine Cycles -- V. The Benedictine Order and the Catholic Reform -- VI. The Texts of the Fathers -- VII. Benedictine Self-Identification in Times of Challenge -- App. 1. Praglia Documents: Excerpts -- App. 2. The Text of Don Vincenzo of Milan: Excerpts.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

This monograph focuses on a Benedictine library decoration conceived and executed within a few years of the conclusion of the Council of Trent. The Benedictines of the Cassinese Congregation centered at Santa Giustina in Padua (to which nearby Praglia belongs) employed many leading artists of Venice and the Veneto in sixteenth-century projects, and the Abbey at Praglia commissioned work from Paolo Veronese and Tintoretto as well as Battista Zelotti.
Diana Gisolfi and Staale Sinding-Larsen begin with a reconstruction of the sixteenth-century library room using physical, on-site evidence, extant documents concerning the furnishings, measurements of the paintings, and early descriptions to re-create with computer technology the room furnished and decorated in 1562-ca. 1570. Once reconstructed, the program in the twenty-four ceiling and wall canvases by Zelotti is revealed as doctrinal. Following a close reading of the images with reference to biblical texts, the authors assemble Benedictine and Conciliar material through which to evaluate and interpret the program.
Much of the theological, dogmatic, and historical data brought forth has broader implications contributing to a revision of the current conception of the so-called Counter Reformation.

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ISBN:

0295976616 (University of Washington Press ; alk. paper)
9780295976617 (University of Washington Press ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Badia di Praglia Library.
Badia di Praglia.
Abbazia di Praglia Bibliothèque.
Library decoration Italy Padua Region History 16th century.
Mural painting and decoration, Italian Italy Padua Region 16th century.
Christian art and symbolism Italy Padua Region Renaissance, 1450-1600.
Benedictine art Italy Padua Region.
Monastic libraries Italy Padua Region.
Benedictine art.
Christian art and symbolism Renaissance.
Libraries.
Library decoration.
Monastic libraries.
Mural painting and decoration, Italian.
Bibliotheekgebouwen.
Abdijen.
Muurschilderingen.
Mural painting and decoration, Italian Padua.
Mural painting and decoration 16th century Italy Padua Region.
Peinture et décoration murales Italie Padoue (Italie) 16e siècle.
Mural painting and decoration, Italian Italy Padua Region.
Christian art and symbolism Renaissance, 1450-1600 Italy Padua Region.
Italy Padua Region.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Sinding-Larsen, Staale.
Monographs on the fine arts ; 55.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 176168
Call No.: ID Z810.B33.G57; ID:98-B2385
Status: Available