Women, Art and Observant Franciscan Piety : Caterina Vigri and the Poor Clares in Early Modern Ferrara /
Arthur, Kathleen Giles
Women, Art and Observant Franciscan Piety : Caterina Vigri and the Poor Clares in Early Modern Ferrara / Kathleen Giles Arthur. - 1 online resource : 8 color plates, 59 halftones, 6 line art - Visual and Material Culture, 1300 -1700 ; 2 .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Plates and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. The Pious Women of Corpus Christi -- 2. Building a Public Image of Piety -- 3. The Sette Armi Spirituali and its Audience -- 4. Drawing for Devotion: Sister Caterina's Breviary -- 5. Corpus Christi's Later Religious and Civic Identity -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Appendix I -- Appendix II -- Bibliography -- Index
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Caterina Vigri (later Saint Catherine of Bologna) was a mystic, writer, teacher and nun-artist. Her first home, Corpus Domini, Ferrara, was a house of semi-religious women that became a Poor Clare convent and model of Franciscan Observant piety. Vigri's intensely spiritual decoration of her breviary, as well as convent altarpieces that formed a visual program of adoration for the Body of Christ, exemplify the Franciscan Observant visual culture. After Vigri's departure, it was transformed by d'Este women patrons, including Isabella da Aragona, Isabella d'Este and Lucrezia Borgia. While still preserving Observant ideals, it became a more elite noblewomen's retreat. Grounded in archival research and extant paintings, drawings, prints and art objects from Corpus Domini, this volume explores the art, visual culture, and social history of an early modern Franciscan women's community.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9789462984332 9789048534999
10.1515/9789048534999 doi
Art and religion--History--Italy--Ferrara--15th century.
Monasticism and religious orders for women--History--Italy--To 1500.
Nuns as artists--Italy--Ferrara.
Women--Religious life--History.--Italy--Ferrara
Stiftung
Architektur
Ausstattung
Christliche Kunst
Klosteranlage
HISTORY / General.
BX4634.F4 / A78 2018eb
709.945
Women, Art and Observant Franciscan Piety : Caterina Vigri and the Poor Clares in Early Modern Ferrara / Kathleen Giles Arthur. - 1 online resource : 8 color plates, 59 halftones, 6 line art - Visual and Material Culture, 1300 -1700 ; 2 .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Plates and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. The Pious Women of Corpus Christi -- 2. Building a Public Image of Piety -- 3. The Sette Armi Spirituali and its Audience -- 4. Drawing for Devotion: Sister Caterina's Breviary -- 5. Corpus Christi's Later Religious and Civic Identity -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Appendix I -- Appendix II -- Bibliography -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Caterina Vigri (later Saint Catherine of Bologna) was a mystic, writer, teacher and nun-artist. Her first home, Corpus Domini, Ferrara, was a house of semi-religious women that became a Poor Clare convent and model of Franciscan Observant piety. Vigri's intensely spiritual decoration of her breviary, as well as convent altarpieces that formed a visual program of adoration for the Body of Christ, exemplify the Franciscan Observant visual culture. After Vigri's departure, it was transformed by d'Este women patrons, including Isabella da Aragona, Isabella d'Este and Lucrezia Borgia. While still preserving Observant ideals, it became a more elite noblewomen's retreat. Grounded in archival research and extant paintings, drawings, prints and art objects from Corpus Domini, this volume explores the art, visual culture, and social history of an early modern Franciscan women's community.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9789462984332 9789048534999
10.1515/9789048534999 doi
Art and religion--History--Italy--Ferrara--15th century.
Monasticism and religious orders for women--History--Italy--To 1500.
Nuns as artists--Italy--Ferrara.
Women--Religious life--History.--Italy--Ferrara
Stiftung
Architektur
Ausstattung
Christliche Kunst
Klosteranlage
HISTORY / General.
BX4634.F4 / A78 2018eb
709.945