Divine and demonic imagery at Tor de'Specchi, 1400-1500 : religious women and art in fifteenth-century Rome / Suzanne M. Scanlan

Author:: Scanlan, Suzanne M.
Additional Titles:: Religious women and art in fifteenth-century Rome and Religious women and art in 15th-century Rome
Published:: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2018]
Copyright Date:: ©2018
Physical Description:: 219 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations (some color), facsimiles ; 25 cm.

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Series:

Visual and material culture, 1300-1700 ; 3.

Contents:

List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: demonic and divine bodies -- Sanctity on the threshold: liminality and corporeality at Tor de'Specchi -- Painted visions and devotional practices at Tor de'Specchi -- Dining and discipline at Tor de'Specchi: the refectory as ritual space -- The devil in the refectory: bodies imagined at Tor de'Specchi -- Epilogue: imagining the canonization of Francesca Romana -- Appendix: Statues of ordination for the Beata Francesca.

Summary:

In the fifteenth century, the Oblates of Santa Francesca Romana, a fledgling community of religious women in Rome, commissioned an impressive array of artwork for their newly acquired living quarters, the Tor de'Specchi. The imagery focused overwhelmingly on the sensual, corporeal nature of contemporary spirituality, populating the walls of the monastery with a highly naturalistic assortment of earthly, divine, and demonic figures. This book draws on art history, anthropology, and gender studies to explore the disciplinary and didactic role of the images, as well as their relationship to important papal projects at the Vatican.

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ISBN:

9789462983991
9462983992

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [203]-216) and index.

Endowment Note:

Roy Laurens Bovard Renaissance Fund

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