Confraternities and the visual arts in Renaissance Italy : ritual, spectacle, image / edited by Barbara Wisch, Diane Cole Ahl
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| Subjects: | Art, Italian Christian art and symbolism--Renaissance, 1450-1600--Italy Confraternities--Italy Art patronage--Italy |
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| Material Type: | Books |
| Language: | English |
| Audience: | Unspecified |
| Published: | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000 |
| LC Classification: | N |
| Table of Contents: | List of Illustrations List of Contributors Introduction / Barbara Wisch, Diane Cole Ahl 1 1. Confraternity and Community: Mobilizing the Sacred in Times of Plague / Louise Marshall 20 2. "In corpo di compagnia": Art and Devotion in the Compagnia della Purificazione e di San Zanobi of Florence / Diane Cole Ahl 46 3. The Compagnia della Purificazione e di San Zanobi in Florence: A Reconstruction of Its Residence at San Marco, 1440-1506 / Ann Matchette 74 Appendix. Documents 93 4. The Acquisition of Art by a Florentine Youth Confraternity: The Case of the Arcangelo Raffaello / Konrad Eisenbichler 102 5. The Qualita of Mercy: (Re)building Confraternal Charities in Renaissance Bologna / Nicholas Terpstra 117 6. Passion, Compassion, and the Sorrows of Women: Niccolo dell'Arca's Lamentation over the Dead Christ for the Bolognese Confraternity of Santa Maria della Vita / Randi Klebanoff 146 Appendix. The Composition of the Lamentation 169 7. The Decorum of the Passion: The Plays of the Confraternity of the Gonfalone in the Roman Colosseum, 1490-1539 / Nerida Newbigin 173 8. New Themes for New Rituals: The Crucifixion Altarpiece by Roviale Spagnuolo for the Oratory of the Gonfalone in Rome / Barbara Wisch 203 Appendix 1. Documents 225 Appendix 2. History of the Attribution and New Conclusions 229 9. Appropriating Space: Woman's Place in Confraternal Life at Santo Spirito in Sassia, Rome / Eunice D. Howe 235 10. "E faucibus daemonis": Daughters of Prostitutes, the First Jesuits, and the Compagnia delle Vergini Miserabili di Santa Caterina della Rosa / Lance G. Lazar 259 11. "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 280 Selected Bibliography 299 Index 309 |
| Additional Authors: | Wisch, Barbara Ahl, Diane Cole, 1949- |
| Notes: | LCCN: 99039383 ISBN: 0521662885 Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-307) and index |
| Physical Description: | xiv, 314 p. : ill. ; 27 cm |
| OCLC Number: | 41951236 |
| ISBN/ISSN: | 0521662885 |