تصاویر الهی و شیطانی در تور دِاسپچی، 1400-1500: زنان مذهبی و هنر در رم قرن پانزدهم (فرهنگ بصری و مادی، 1300-1700)

In The Fifteenth Century, The Oblates Of Santa Francesca Romana, A Fledgling Community Of Religious Women In Rome, Commissioned An Impressive Array Of Artwork For Their Newly Acquired Living Quarters, The Tor De'specchi. The Imagery Focused Overwhelmingly On The Sensual, Corporeal Nature Of Contemporary Spirituality, Populating The Walls Of The Monastery With A Highly Naturalistic Assortment Of Earthly, Divine, And Demonic Figures. This Book Draws On Art History, Anthropology, And Gender Studies To Explore The Disciplinary And Didactic Role Of The Images, As Well As Their Relationship To Important Papal Projects At The Vatican. List Of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Demonic And Divine Bodies -- 1. Sancticity On The Threshold: Liminality And Corporeality At Tor De'specchi -- 2. Painted Visions And Devotional Practicies At Tor De'specchi -- 3. Dining And Discipline At Tor De'specchi: The Refectory As Ritual Space -- 4. The Devil In The Refectory: Bodies Imagined At Tor De'specchi -- Epilogue: Imagining The Canonization Of Francesca Romana -- Appendix: Statues Of Ordination For The Beata Francesca -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. Suzanne M. Scanlan. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 203-216) And Index. Divine and Demonic Imageryat Tor de’Specchi, 1400–1500 Contents List of Illustrations Color Plates Black and White Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Demonic and Divine Bodies Francesca Ponziani and the Oblates at Tor de’Specchi Primary Sources Organization of the Book 1. Sanctity on the Threshold: Liminality and Corporeality at Tor de’Specchi Doorways, Liminality and Ritual A Community on the Threshold Transition and Vestition Donne Oneste From the Papal Chapel to the Tor de’Specchi Oratory The Death and Funeral of Santa Francesca Romana 2. Painted Visions and Devotional Practices at Tor de’Specchi Material Beginnings Vision, Memory, and Late-Medieval Viewing Practices Spiritual Agency and Authority Heavenly Communion The Virgin’s Crown and the Papal Tiara 3. Dining and Discipline at Tor de’Specchi: The Refectory as Ritual Space Temptation and Discernment: How to Recognize Your Enemy Knowing the Rules Dining and Discipline The Tor de’Specchi Refectory as a Ritual Space 4. The Devil in the Refectory: Bodies Imagined at Tor de’Specchi Terra Verde and the Night [Im]permeable Spaces Inviolable Bodies The Devil in the Refectory Epilogue: Imagining the Canonization of Francesca Romana Surrounding a Saint: Antonio Tempesta’s Canonziation Broadside Whose Saint Is She? Carrying the Standard Appendix: Statutes of Ordination for the Beata Francesca Notes Introduction: Demonic and Divine Bodies 1. Sanctity on the Threshold: Liminality and Corporeality at Tor de’Specchi 2. Painted Visions and Devotional Practices at Tor de’Specchi 3. Dining and Discipline at Tor de’Specchi: The Refectory as ­Ritual Space 4. The Devil in the Refectory: Bodies Imagined at Tor de’Specchi Epilogue: Imagining the Canonization of Francesca Romana Bibliography Archival Sources Published Primary Sources Secondary Sources Index This book offers the first English-language examination of art commissioned by religious women in fifteenth-century Rome. Detailed photographs show readers the impressive array of paintings commissioned by oblates for their living quarters, Tor de’Specchi. The book focuses primarily on the sensual and corporeal, as earthly, divine, and demonic figures occur throughout the imagery. The book uses formal analysis, theories of vision and anthropological models to explore the disciplinary and educational purposes of the images, as well as their relationship to important papal projects at the Vatican

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