Confraternities and the Visual Arts in Renaissance Italy

by Wisch, Barbara; Ahl, Diane Cole

• ISBN13: 9781107403406
• ISBN10: 1107403405
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-01-26
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

First published in 2000, Confraternities and the Visual Arts in Renaissance Italy: Ritual, Spectacle, Image was 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 illuminating approaches to one of the most dynamic forms of corporate patronage in early modern Italy.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Confraternity and community: mobilizing the sacred in times of Plague

'In corpo di compagnia': art and devotion in the Compagnia della Purificazione e di San Zanobi of Florence

The Compagnia della Purificazione e di San Zanobi in Florence: a reconstruction of its Residence at San Marco, 1440-1506

The acquisition of art by a Florentine youth confraternity: the case of Arcangelo Raffaello

The Qualità of mercy: (re)building confraternal charities in Renaissance Bologna

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

The decorum of the Passion: the plays of the confraternity of the Gonfalone in the Roman Colosseum, 1490-1539

New themes for new rituals: the Crucifixion Altarpiece by Roviale Spagnuolo for the Oratory of the Gonfalone in Rome

Appropriating space: woman's place in the confraternal life at Santo Spirito in Sassia, Rome

'E faucibus daemonis': daughters of prostitutes, the first Jesuits, and the Compagnia delle Vergini Miserabili di Santa Caterina della Rosa

'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

Selected bibliography

Index

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