Divine and Demonic Imagery at Tor De'Specchi, 1400-1500 : Religious Women and Art in 15th-Century Rome.
This book offers the first English-language examination of art commissioned by religious women in fifteenth-century Rome. Detailed photographs show readers the impressive array of paintings commissioned by oblates for their living quarters, Tor de'Specchi. The book focuses primarily on the sens...
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| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
2017
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| Series: | Visual and Material Culture, 1300 -1700 Ser.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Intro; Divine and Demonic Imageryat Tor de'Specchi, 1400-1500; Contents; List of Illustrations; Color Plates; Black and White Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Demonic and Divine Bodies; Francesca Ponziani and the Oblates at Tor de'Specchi; Primary Sources; Organization of the Book; 1. Sanctity on the Threshold: Liminality and Corporeality at Tor de'Specchi; Doorways, Liminality and Ritual; A Community on the Threshold; Transition and Vestition; Donne Oneste; From the Papal Chapel to the Tor de'Specchi Oratory; The Death and Funeral of Santa Francesca Romana.
- 2. Painted Visions and Devotional Practices at Tor de'SpecchiMaterial Beginnings; Vision, Memory, and Late-Medieval Viewing Practices; Spiritual Agency and Authority; Heavenly Communion; The Virgin's Crown and the Papal Tiara; 3. Dining and Discipline at Tor de'Specchi: The Refectory as Ritual Space; Temptation and Discernment: How to Recognize Your Enemy; Knowing the Rules; Dining and Discipline; The Tor de'Specchi Refectory as a Ritual Space; 4. The Devil in the Refectory: Bodies Imagined at Tor de'Specchi; Terra Verde and the Night; [Im]permeable Spaces; Inviolable Bodies.
- The Devil in the RefectoryEpilogue: Imagining the Canonization of Francesca Romana; Surrounding a Saint: Antonio Tempesta's Canonziation Broadside; Whose Saint Is She?; Carrying the Standard; Appendix: Statutes of Ordination for the Beata Francesca; Notes; Introduction: Demonic and Divine Bodies; 1. Sanctity on the Threshold: Liminality and Corporeality at Tor de'Specchi; 2. Painted Visions and Devotional Practices at Tor de'Specchi; 3. Dining and Discipline at Tor de'Specchi: The Refectory as ƯRitual Space; 4. The Devil in the Refectory: Bodies Imagined at Tor de'Specchi.
- Epilogue: Imagining the Canonization of Francesca RomanaBibliography; Archival Sources; Published Primary Sources; Secondary Sources; Index.
