In the courts of religious ladies : art, vision, and pleasure in Italian Renaissance convents
"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...
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New Haven ; London
: Yale University Press
, [2016]
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[Rezension von: Giancarla Periti, In the courts of religious ladies. Art, vision, and pleasure in Italian Renaissance convents] |
| Author Notes: | Giancarla Periti |
Table of Contents:
- Courts of Elite Virgins : Enclosure, Christian Manners, and the Fashion of LiminalityArt for Nuns : Gaze, Touch, and Provocation
- Art, Contemplation, and Splendor
- Giovanna Piacenza's Abbatial Apartment : Space, Gender, and Power
- Monstrosities, Female Exemplarity, and the Ideal of Regeneration
- Correggio, Witticism, and the Enigmatic Image.
