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.
| ISBN: | 9789462983991 |
| Publication date: | 12th March 2018 |
| Author: | Suzanne Scanlan |
| Publisher: | Amsterdam University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 244 pages |
| Series: | Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700 |
| Genres: |
Science: general issues History of art |