| Anabel Thomas, Art and Piety in the Female Religious Communities of Renaissance Italy. Iconography, Space, and the Religious Woman's Perspective, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp. 430, 12 tav. col., 88 ill. b/n, $ 100,00 (hardback - ISBN 0521811880). |
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Indice
Part I. The Social Function of the Institution
1. Partial and impartial evidence
2. Female religious communities characterized
3. Issues of gender: an Augustinian view
Part II. The Spatial Dimension
4. The architectural development of the conventual complex
5. Plans - distinctions drawn in space
6. Inventories and conventual chronicles - art recorded in space
7. Visual distinctions and the demarcation of space
Part III. Art and Space
8. Distinctive imagery in the private and public sphere
9. Franciscan tertiaries (i)
10. Franciscan tertiaries (ii)
11. Tracking change in conventual imagery: images relocated and altered
12. Re-assessment of conventual imagery: role of suppression documents
Part IV. Art and Ritual
13. The politics of display
14. A Dominican angle: San Domenico del Maglio in Florence
15. Varying degrees of emphasis on titular saints
16. The nature of gaze
17. Hierarchies within the establishment: San Niccolò in Prato
18. The resonance of time and experience: varying patterns of behaviour
19. Communication
Part V. Perspectives on Conventual Patronage
20. Commissioning bodies: insiders, outsiders and less familiar
asides
21. Frameworks of association.
