| Description |
1 online resource (219 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), facsimiles. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Visual and material culture, 1300-1700
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Visual and material culture, 1300-1700.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Monastero delle Oblate di Santa Francesca Romana.
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Kloster Santissima Annunziata a Tor de'Specchi Rom. |
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Arts, Italian -- Italy -- Rome -- 15th century.
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Arts, Italian. |
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Italy -- Rome. |
| Chronological Term |
15th century |
| Subject |
Women -- Religious aspects.
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Women -- Religious aspects. |
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Art and religion.
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Art and religion. |
| Chronological Term |
1400-1499 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Scanlan, Suzanne M. Divine and demonic imagery at Tor de'Specchi, 1400-1500. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2018] 9789462983991 (OCoLC)979568009 |
| ISBN |
9789048534517 (electronic book) |
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9048534518 (electronic book) |
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9789462983991 |
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9462983992 |
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