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Women, Art and Observant Franciscan Piety : Caterina Vigri and the Poor Clares in Early Modern Ferrara / Kathleen Giles Arthur.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Visual and Material Culture, 1300 -1700 ; 2Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource : 8 color plates, 59 halftones, 6 line artContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789462984332
  • 9789048534999
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 709.945 22
LOC classification:
  • BX4634.F4 A78 2018eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
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
Summary: 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.

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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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