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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Main Author: Scanlan, Suzanne M. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press 2018
Series:Visual and material culture, 1300-1700
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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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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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (219 Seiten)
ISBN:9789048534517
DOI:10.1017/9789048534517