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Divine and Demonic Imagery At Tor De''specchi, 1400-1500 - Religious Women and Art in 15th-Century Rome

English · Paperback / Softback

Will be released 01.12.2025

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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 earthly, divine, and demonic figures. This book draws on art history, anthropology, and gender studies to explore the disciplinary and didactic role of the images, as well as their relationship to important papal projects at the Vatican.

List of contents










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

About the author










Suzanne Scanlan is a Lecturer in the History of Art and Visual Culture at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI.

Product details

Authors Suzanne Scanlan, Suzanne M. Scanlan
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd.
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Release 01.12.2025
 
EAN 9781041178262
ISBN 978-1-0-4117826-2
No. of pages 244
Series Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history

The arts: general issues, ART / History / General, HISTORY / Europe / Italy, History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, The arts: general topics

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