Title & Author:

Confraternities and the visual arts in Renaissance Italy : ritual, spectacle, image / edited by Barbara Wisch, Diane Cole Ahl.

Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Description:

xiv, 314 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-307) and index.
Confraternity and community: mobilizing the sacred in times of plague / Louise Marshall -- "In corpo di compagnia": art and devotion in the Compagnia della Purificazione e di San Zanobi of Florence / Diane Cole Ahl -- The Compagnia della Purificazione e di San Zanobi in Florence: a reconstruction of its residence at San Marco, 1440-1506 / Ann Matchette -- The acquisition of art by a Florentine youth confraternity: the case of the Arcangelo Raffaello / Konrad Eisenbichler -- The qualità of mercy: (re)building confraternal charities in Renaissance Bologna / Nicholas Terpstra -- Passion, compassion, and the sorrows of women: Niccolò dell'Arca's Lamentation over the dead Christ for the Bolognese confraternity of Santa Maria della Vita / Randi Klebanoff -- The decorum of the passion: the plays of the confraternity of the Gonfalone in the Roman Colosseum, 1490-1539 / Nerida Newbigin -- New themes for new rituals: the Crucifixion altarpiece by Roviale Spagnuolo for the oratory of the Gonfalone in Rome / Barbara Wisch -- Appropriating space: woman's place in confraternal life at Santo Spirito in Sassia, Rome / Eunice D. Howe -- "E faucibus daemonis": daughters of prostitutes, the first Jesuits, and the Compagnia delle Vergini Miserabili di Santa Caterina della Rosa / Lance G. Lazar -- "She is among all virgins the queen ... so worthy a patron ... for maidens to copy." Livio Agresti, Cardinal Federico Cesi, and the Compagnia delle Vergini Miserabili di Santa Caterina della Rosa / Louise Smith Bross.

Summary:

"Confraternities and the Visual Arts in Renaissance Italy: Ritual, Spectacle, Image is the first book to consider the role of Italian confraternities in the patronage of art. Eleven interdisciplinary essays analyze confraternal painting, sculpture, architecture, and dramatic spectacles by documenting the unique historical and ritual contexts in which they were experienced.
Exploring the evolution of devotional practices, the roles of women and youths, the age's conception of charity, and the importance of confraternities in civic politics and urban design, this book offers new approaches to one of the most dynamic forms of corporate patronage in early modern Italy."--Jacket.

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ISBN:

0521662885
9780521662888

Subject:

Art, Italian.
Christian art and symbolism Italy Renaissance, 1450-1600.
Confraternities Italy.
Art patronage Italy.
Art, Italian 16th century.
Art patronage Italy History.
Art, Italian 15th century.
Art italien 16e siècle.
Art chrétien Italie 1450-1600 (Renaissance)
Confréries Italie Histoire.
Mécénat Italie Histoire.
Art italien 15e siècle.
Art italien.
Confréries Italie.
Mécénat Italie.
20.70 European art.
Arte Italia Sec. 15.-16.
Confraternite Italia Sec. 15.-16.
Art patronage.
Christian art and symbolism Renaissance.
Confraternities.
Kunst
Renaissance
Bruderschaft
Broederschappen.
Beeldende kunsten.
Patronage.
Art chrétien Renaissance Italie.
Confréries de charité Italie Renaissance.
Art Italie Renaissance.
Italy.
Italien

Added entries:

Wisch, Barbara.
Ahl, Diane Cole, 1949-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 214917
Call No.: N7952.A1 C6 2000
Status: Available