Reforming Art in Renaissance Venice

This book considers the impact of religious reform on the devotional art and architecture of sixteenth-century Venice. Interrogating early modern censorship, artistic liberty, notions of decorum tied to depictions of the body, and the role of sacred images in the shaping of local identity, it showcases a study through which to explore these themes.

List of contents

Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: 1. The appeal of the subversive: art and heresy (1520-1544); 2. Nakedness and the lascivious: the boundaries of decorum before and after the Council of Trent; 3. The limits of enforcement: artistic censorship in Venice; 4. A reform in quantity: patriarch Lorenzo Priuli's visitation; Part II: 5. The body of Christ; 6. Sanctity; 7. The afterlife; Conclusions; Bibliography; Index

About the author

Marie-Louise Lillywhite is the senior tutor of the Middlebury College Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies in Oxford, as well as a research associate at Keble College and a member of the History Faculty at the University of Oxford.

Summary

This book considers the impact of religious reform on the devotional art and architecture of sixteenth-century Venice. Interrogating early modern censorship, artistic liberty, notions of decorum tied to depictions of the body, and the role of sacred images in the shaping of local identity, it showcases a study through which to explore these themes.

Product details

• Authors: Marie-Louise Lillywhite, Marie-Louise (University of Oxford) Lillywhite
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2025
• EAN: 9781009557498
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0955749-8
• No. of pages: 350
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; European History, Northern Italy, HISTORY / Europe / Italy, ART / European, Italy, History of Art, History of art & design styles: c 1400 to c 1600, Mannerism, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Renaissance art, Renaissance style, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, European history: Renaissance, HISTORY / Europe / Renaissance, Art & Design Styles: Mannerism, ART / History / European / Renaissance