Transforming the Church Interior in Renaissance Florence - Screens and Choir Spaces, From the Middle Ages to Tridentine Reform

Investigates the screens which divided church interiors in Renaissance Florence, and the religious and aesthetic motivations behind their elimination in the Counter-Reformation.

List of contents

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.

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Joanne Allen, Joanne (American University Allen, Allen Joanne
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2022
• EAN: 9781108833592
• ISBN: 978-1-108-83359-2
• No. of pages: 366
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Christianity / General, ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / Religious, Christianity, History of Religion, History of Art, History of art: Byzantine & Medieval art c 500 CE to c 1400, Renaissance art, Religious buildings, Renaissance style, Architecture: religious buildings, Medieval style, ART / History / European / Medieval