Apostolic Iconography and Florentine Confraternities in the Age of Reform

ISBN-13: 9780367433253 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 240 str.

Douglas N. Dow

Opis

Dow explores how, through the emphasis on the apostles within their art programs, these corporate groups adapted existing iconography to their own purposes. He argues that their willful engagement with apostolic themes reveals the complex interaction between these organizations and the church’s program of reform.

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction; Alessandro de’ Medici and the Florentine archdiocese at the end of the cinquecento; ’Maledictus enim homo, qui opus Dei facit negligenter’: Giovanni Balducci’s frescoes of the Risen Christ and the Apostles in the church of Gesù Pellegrino; ’Essere amorevole della casa’: the sculptures of the Apostles in the oratory of San Giovanni Battista detta dello Scalzo; ’Far bene per i vivi, e morti’: the frescoes of the martyrdoms of the Apostles in the atrium of the oratory of Santissima Annunziata; Conclusion; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Douglas N. Dow is Associate Professor of Art History at Kansas State University, USA.