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Author : Phillip Joseph Earenfight
Release : 1999
Genre : Confraternities
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Book Synopsis The Residence and Loggia Della Misericordia (il Bigallo) by : Phillip Joseph Earenfight
Download or read book The Residence and Loggia Della Misericordia (il Bigallo) written by Phillip Joseph Earenfight. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : DianaBullen Presciutti
Release : 2017-07-05
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis Visual Cultures of Foundling Care in Renaissance Italy by : DianaBullen Presciutti
Download or read book Visual Cultures of Foundling Care in Renaissance Italy written by DianaBullen Presciutti. This book was released on 2017-07-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The social problem of infant abandonment captured the public?s imagination in Italy during the fifteenth century, a critical period of innovation and development in charitable discourses. As charity toward foundlings became a political priority, the patrons and supporters of foundling hospitals turned to visual culture to help them make their charitable work understandable to a wide audience. Focusing on four institutions in central Italy that possess significant surviving visual and archival material, Visual Cultures of Foundling Care in Renaissance Italy examines the discursive processes through which foundling care was identified, conceptualized, and promoted. The first book to consider the visual culture of foundling hospitals in Renaissance Italy, this study looks beyond the textual evidence to demonstrate that the institutional identities of foundling hospitals were articulated by means of a wide variety of visual forms, including book illumination, altarpieces, fresco cycles, institutional insignia, processional standards, prints, and reliquaries. The author draws on fields as diverse as art history, childhood studies, the history of charity, Renaissance studies, gender studies, sociology, and the history of religion to elucidate the pivotal role played by visual culture in framing and promoting the charitable succor of foundlings.
Author : Konrad Eisenbichler
Release : 2019-02-04
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis A Companion to Medieval and Early Modern Confraternities by : Konrad Eisenbichler
Download or read book A Companion to Medieval and Early Modern Confraternities written by Konrad Eisenbichler. This book was released on 2019-02-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Medieval and Early Modern Confraternities presents confraternities as fundamentally important venues for the acquisition of spiritual riches, material wealth, and social capital in early modern Europe and Post-Conquest America.
Author : Christopher F. Black
Release : 2006
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis Early Modern Confraternities in Europe and the Americas by : Christopher F. Black
Download or read book Early Modern Confraternities in Europe and the Americas written by Christopher F. Black. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars have long recognized the significant role that confraternities, or lay brotherhoods, played in the religious life of medieval and early modern Catholicism. Taking a broad chronological and geographical approach, this collection of essays addresses the varied and fluid nature of confraternities and their relationship to wider society.
Author : Federico Botana
Release : 2020-07-02
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis Learning through Images in the Italian Renaissance by : Federico Botana
Download or read book Learning through Images in the Italian Renaissance written by Federico Botana. This book was released on 2020-07-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the affluent merchant class of fifteenth-century Florence, the education of future generations was a fundamental matter. Together with texts, images played an important role in the development of the young into adult citizens. In this book, Federico Botana demonstrates how illustrated manuscripts of vernacular texts read by the Florentine youth facilitated understanding and memorisation of basic principles and knowledge. They were an important means of acquiring skills then considered necessary to gain the respect of others, to prosper as merchants, and to participate in civic life. Botana focuses on illustrated texts that were widely read in Quattrocento Florence: the Fior di virtù (a moral treatise including a bestiary), the Esopo volgarizzato (Aesop's Fables in Tuscan), the Sfera by Goro Dati (a poem on cosmology and geography), and mathematical manuals known as libri d'abbaco. He elucidates, in light of original sources and medieval and modern cognitive theory, the mechanisms that empowered illustrations to transmit knowledge in the Italian Renaissance.
