Flagellant Confraternities and Italian Art, 1260-1610 - Ritual and Experience

This book examines the art and ritual of flagellant confraternities in Italy from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries. Meeting regularly to beat themselves with whips, members of these confraternities concentrated on the suffering of Christ in the most extreme and committed way, and the images around them provided visual prompts of the Passion and the model suffering body. This study presents new findings related to a variety of artworks including altarpieces, banners, wall paintings, illuminated manuscripts, and paintings for the condemned, many from outside the Florence-Rome-Venice triangle.

List of contents

List of Illustrations, Colour Plates, Acknowledgements, Part I. Art and ritual, to 1450 1. Flagellation and Its Settings 2. Images at Entrances, and Ascesis 3. Mass 4. Comforting 5. Processions Part II. Transformations 6. Changes in Ritual before Trent 7. Changes in Imagery before Trent: Sansepolcro and Volterra 8. After Trent: Florence and Milan Epilogue: Global Flagellation, Notes, Bibliography, Index.

About the author

Andrew Chen is Assistant Professor of Early Modern Art at Texas State University. In 2020-21 he was CRIA Fellow at Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Chen, Chen Andrew
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2025
• EAN: 9781041179481
• ISBN: 978-1-0-4117948-1
• No. of pages: 246
• Series: Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; The arts: general issues, History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, HISTORY / Europe / Renaissance, The arts: general topics, ART / Movements / Renaissance