{"product_id":"network-of-cassinese-arts-in-renaissance-italy","title":"Network of Cassinese Arts in Renaissance Italy","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the late 15th to the mid-16th \ncentury, an impressive corpus of architecture, sculpture, and painting \nwas created to embellish monastic sites affiliated with the Benedictine \nCassinese Congregation of Italy. A religious order of humanistically \ntrained monks, the Cassinese engaged with the most eminent artists and \narchitects of the early modern period, supporting the production of \nimagery and architecture that was often highly experimental in nature: \nfrom Raphael's \u003cem\u003eSistine Madonna\u003c\/em\u003e in Piacenza to Andrea Riccio's \u003cem\u003eMoses\/Zeus Ammon\u003c\/em\u003e,\n from Andrea Palladio's church of San Giorgio Maggiore (Venice) to the \nsuperbly crafted choirstalls of San Severino and Sossio (Naples).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eApplying\n a network framework to the congregation's infrastructure of monasteries\n makes clear that the circulation of sophisticated Renaissance art and \narchitecture constituted only a segment of the monks' investment in the \narts. Monks also served as custodians of an antique monumental heritage \nand popular votive images, assuring the survival of ancient buildings \nand artifacts of limited aesthetic value that supplied opportunities for\n early modern masters to confront an array of artworks for the \nreinvention of reformed Christian art and architecture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eText in English, Italian and German.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Officina Libraria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54227834241368,"sku":"9788833671048","price":43.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9788833671048.jpg?v=1777111255","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/network-of-cassinese-arts-in-renaissance-italy","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}