Nuns and Reform Art in Early Modern Venice: The Architecture of Santi Cosma E Damiano and Its Decoration from Tintoretto to Tiepolo

ISBN-13: 9781138272217 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 344 str.

Benjamin Paul

Opis

Arguing that Santi Cosma e Damiano was a reform convent, the author of this interdisciplinary study explores how its nuns employed art and architecture as a means to actively express their specific religious concerns. While focusing on the reconstruction of the history and construction of the convent, this study's larger concern is with the religious reform movement, and with the convent as a space for female self-realization in early modern Venice.

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction; Part I The Convent of Santi Cosma e Damiano: Its History and Architecture: The beginnings of the nunnery and its first church; The new convent and church; The architecture of the new convent and church; Santi Cosma e Damiano's sister churches and their design; Cassinese reform architecture. Part II The Decoration of Santi Cosma e Damiano: The altarpieces; Tintoretto's Crucifixion and Cassinese spirituality; Tintoretto's Santi Cosma e Damiano altarpiece; The 16th-century frescoes; Later decoration and the covenant with God; Conclusion; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Benjamin Paul is an Assistant Professor of Art History at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA.