1st Edition
Divine and Demonic Imagery at Tor de'Specchi, 1400-1500 Religious Women and Art in 15th-century Rome
By Suzanne M. Scanlan
Copyright 2018
244 Pages
by
Routledge
244 Pages
by
Routledge
244 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
List of Illustrations, Acknowledgements, Introduction: Demonic and Divine Bodies, Chapter 1: Sanctity on the Threshold: Liminality and Corporeality at Tor de'Specchi, Chapter 2: Painted Visions and Devotional Practices at Tor de'Specchi, Chapter 3: Dining and Discipline at Tor de'Specchi: The Refectory as Ritual Space, Chapter 4: The Devil in the Refectory: Bodies Imagined at Tor de'Specchi, Epilogue : Imagining the Canonization of Francesca Romana, Appendix A: Statutes of Ordination for the Beata Francesca, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Suzanne Scanlan is a Lecturer in the History of Art and Visual Culture at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI.
