Christianity and the Renaissance : image and religious imagination in the Quattrocento
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Christianity and the Renaissance : image and religious imagination in the Quattrocento
Syracuse University Press, 1990
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographies and index
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Description
Distinguished scholars from around the world present in this collection a new vision of the Italian Renaissance in which religious faith is regarded as the source of individual and collective experience. The book features unfamiliar aspects of Renaissance art, mainly in 15th-century Florence.
Table of Contents
- Christianity, the Renaissance, and the study of history
- monasteries, friaries and nunneries in quattrocento Florence
- lay patronage and observant reform in 15th-century Florence
- the tree of life and the Holy Cross
- Franciscan spirituality in the trecento and the quattrocento
- penitence and the laity in 15th-century Florence
- sacred mountains in Europe and America
- Savonarola's preaching and the patronage of art
- altarpieces and the requirements of patrons
- art criticism and icon-theology.
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