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

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 con...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Scanlan, Suzanne M. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2018]
Series:Visual and material culture, 1300-1700.
Subjects:
Monastero delle Oblate di Santa Francesca Romana.
Kloster Santissima Annunziata a Tor de'Specchi Rom
1400-1499
Arts, Italian > Italy > Rome > 15th century.
Women > Religious aspects.
Art and religion.
Arts italiens > Italie > Rome > 15e siècle.
Femmes > Aspect religieux.
Art et religion.
ART > History > General.
Arts, Italian.
Ausstattung
Ikonographie
Klosteranlage
Malerei
Wandmalerei
Italy > Rome.
Santissima Annunziata a Tor de'Specchi > Rom
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • List of illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: demonic and divine bodies
  • 1. Sancticity on the threshold: liminality and corporeality at Tor de'Specchi
  • 2. Painted visions and devotional practicies at Tor de'Specchi
  • 3. Dining and discipline at Tor de'Specchi: the refectory as ritual space
  • 4. 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
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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