Nuns and Reform Art in Early Modern Venice
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archival church history
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Benedictine convents
Benedictine Reform Movements
Cassinese Congregation
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Damiano Altarpiece
early modern spirituality
Early Modern Venice
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female monasticism
Fondazione Musei Civici
Francesco Salviati
Giambattista Tiepolo
High Altar Area
High Altar Chapel
High Altarpiece
Lateral Chapels
Manica Lunga
Marina Celsi
Mauro Codussi
Museo Correr
Paneled Pilasters
Pesaro Madonna
Sacra Conversazione
sacred art patronage
Saints Cosmas
San Secondo
Santa Giustina
Tintoretto's Crucifixion
Tintoretto's Painting
Tintoretto’s Crucifixion
Tintoretto’s Painting
Venetian Convents
Venetian religious reform
women religious architecture Venice
Product details
- ISBN 9781138272217
- Weight: 620g
- Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 11 Nov 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Decorated by Giovanni Buonconsiglio, Jacopo Tintoretto, Palma il Giovane, Sebastiano Ricci and Giambattista Tiepolo, the church of the former Benedictine female monastery Santi Cosma e Damiano occupies an outstanding position in Venice. The author of this study argues that from its foundation in 1481 to its dissolution in 1805, Santi Cosma e Damiano was a reform convent, and that its nuns employed art and architecture as a means to actively express their specific religious concerns. While on the one hand focusing, on the basis of extensive archival research, on the reconstruction of the history and construction of the convent, this study's larger concern is with the religious reform movement, its ideas concerning art and architecture, and with the convent as a space for female self-realization in early modern Venice.
Benjamin Paul is an Assistant Professor of Art History at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA.
