Description: Further DetailsTitle: In the Courts of Religious LadiesCondition: NewEAN: 9780300214239ISBN: 9780300214239Publisher: Yale University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 03/15/2016Item Height: 279mmItem Length: 216mmItem Weight: 1533gAuthor: Giancarla PeritiLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Art, Vision, and Pleasure in Italian Renaissance ConventsISBN-10: 0300214235Description: This fascinating study considers the poetic and mythological artworks made for elite female monastic communities in Renaissance Italy. Nuns from the patrician class, who often disregarded obligations of austerity and poverty, commissioned sensually appealing, richly made artifacts inspired by contemporary courtly culture. The works of art transformed monastic parlors, abbatial apartments, and nuns’ cells into ornate settings, thereby enriching and complicating the opposition of religious and worldly spheres. This unconventional monastic and yet courtly decoration was a new form of art in the way it entangled the sacred and the profane. The artwork was intended to edify both intellectually and spiritually, as well as to delight and seduce the viewer. Based on extensive new research into primary sources, this generously illustrated book introduces a thriving female monastic visual culture that ecclesiastical authorities endeavored to suppress. It shows how this art taught its viewers to use their eyes to gain insights about the secular world beyond the convent walls.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Arts & PhotographyRelease Year: 2016 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: In the Courts of Religious Ladies
Title: In the Courts of Religious Ladies
EAN: 9780300214239
ISBN: 9780300214239
Release Date: 03/15/2016
Release Year: 2016
Subtitle: Art, Vision, and Pleasure in Italian Renaissance Convents
ISBN-10: 0300214235
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Arts & Photography
Number of Pages: 304 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: In the Courts of Religious Ladies : Art, Vision, and Pleasure in Italian Renaissance Convents
Publisher: Yale University Press
Item Height: 0.1 in
Subject: Monasticism, Subjects & Themes / Religious, Artists, Architects, Photographers, European, History / General, History / Renaissance
Publication Year: 2016
Item Weight: 53.7 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 1.1 in
Author: Giancarla Periti
Subject Area: Art, Religion, Biography & Autobiography
Item Width: 0.9 in
Format: Hardcover
