| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xix, 611 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index. |
| Contents |
Christianity, the Renaissance, and the study of history: environments of experience and imagination / Timothy Verdon -- pt. 1. The monastic world: Monasteries, friaries, and nunneries in Quattrocento Florence / Gene Adam Brucker -- Lay patronage and observant reform in fifteenth-century Florence / Nicolai Rubinstein -- Augustinus canonicus-Augustinus eremita: a Quattrocento cause célèbre / Kaspar Elm -- Fra Angelico at San Marco: art and the liturgy of cloistered life / William Hood -- The tree of life and the Holy Cross: Franciscan spirituality in the Trecento and the Quattrocento / Rab Hatfield -- Some images for Carmelites, circa 1330-1430 / Creighton Gilbert -- Civic preaching in the early Renaissance: Dominici's Florentine sermons / Daniel R. Lesnick -- pt. 2. The religious world of the laity: Penitence and the laity in fifteenth-century Florence / John Henderson -- Sacred eloquence: humanist preaching and lay piety in Renaissance Florence / Ronald F.E. Weissman -- The Scuole Grandi of Venice: some further thoughts / Brian Pullan -- Death and Christian charity in the confraternities of the Upper Tiber Valley / James R. Banker -- The Florentine confraternities today / Neri Capponi -- Cult objects and artistic patronage of the fourteenth-century flagellant confraternity of Gesù Pellegrino / Kathleen Giles Arthur -- The word made flesh: the rappresentazioni of mysteries and miracles in fifteenth-century Florence / Nerida Newbigin -- Music and spectacle in confraternity drama in fifteenth-century Florence: the reconstruction of a theatrical event / Cyrilla Barr -- Thoughts on Florentine fifteenth-century religious spectacle / Paola Ventrone -- Sacred mountains in Europe and America / George Kubler -- pt. 3. The world of the Christian humanist: Humanism and the religious crisis of the late Quattrocento: Giovanni Caroli, O.P., and the Liber dierum lucensium / Salvatore Camporeale -- Marsilio Ficino and the Medici: the inner dimensions of patronage / Melissa Meriam Bullard -- Savonarola's preaching and the patronage of art / Marcia B. Hall -- Gian Francesco Pico Della Mirandola: Savonarolan apologetics and the critique of ancient thought / Eugenio Garin -- pt. 4. Coda on method: Altarpieces and the requirements of patrons / Charles Hope -- Art criticism and icon-theology / Eugenio Marino. |
| Subject |
Christian art and symbolism -- Italy -- Renaissance, 1450-1600.
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Christianity and art -- Catholic Church.
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| Added Author |
Verdon, Timothy.
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Henderson, John, 1949 June 12-
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| ISBN |
081562414X alkaline paper |
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0815624565 paperback alkaline paper |
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