Joanne Allen (Washington DC American University)

Transforming the Church Interior in Renaissance Florence

Screens and Choir Spaces, from the Middle Ages to Tridentine Reform

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Produktbeschreibung

In Renaissance Florence, churches were once internally divided by monumental screens, impressive artistic structures which separated the laity from the clergy. This book reconstructs the social and visual effects of these layouts and examines the religious and aesthetic motivations behind the elimination of screens in the Counter-Reformation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 366
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 283mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 1214g
• ISBN-13: 9781108833592
• ISBN-10: 1108833594
• Artikelnr.: 62951318

Autorenporträt

Joanne Allen studied at the Courtauld Institute of Art and the University of Warwick, and completed postdoctoral fellowships in Rome, Florence, and Venice. She teaches at American University, where she won a teaching award, and her research has been supported by the Renaissance Society of America and the Italian Art Society. She is a choral singer and artist.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Accessing the Italian church interior
2. Transforming churches in fifteenth-century Florence
3. Transforming churches in sixteenth-century Florence
4. Community and access in the Mendicant church: Santa Maria del Carmine
5. Patronage and place in monastic churches: Santa Trinita and San Pancrazio
6. Gender and Ceremony in The Nuns' church: San Pier Maggiore
7. Behavior and reform in the civic oratory: Orsanmichele
8. Duke Cosimo I de' Medici, religious reform, and the Florentine church interior.