Transforming the Church Interior in Renaissance Florence
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Transforming the Church Interior in Renaissance Florence

Screens and Choir Spaces, from the Middle Ages to Tridentine Reform

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Transforming the Church Interior in Renaissance Florence

Screens and Choir Spaces, from the Middle Ages to Tridentine Reform

About this book

Before the late sixteenth century, the churches of Florence were internally divided by monumental screens that separated the laity in the nave from the clergy in the choir precinct. Enabling both separation and mediation, these screens were impressive artistic structures that controlled social interactions, facilitated liturgical performances, and variably framed or obscured religious ritual and imagery.In the 1560s and 70s, screens were routinely destroyed in a period of religious reforms, irreversibly transforming the function, meaning, and spatial dynamics of the church interior. In this volume, Joanne Allen explores the widespread presence of screens and their role in Florentine social and religious life prior to the Counter-Reformation. She presents unpublished documentation and new reconstructions of screens and the choir precincts which they delimited. Elucidating issues such as gender, patronage, and class, her study makes these vanished structures comprehensible and deepens our understanding of the impact of religious reform on church architecture.

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Information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2022
Print ISBN
9781108833592
eBook ISBN
9781108988209
Topic
Kunst
Subtopic
Kunst Allgemein

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of Figures
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Note to the Reader
  10. Archive Abbreviations
  11. Introduction
  12. Chapter 1 Accessing the Italian Church Interior
  13. Chapter 2 Transforming Churches in Fifteenth-Century Florence
  14. Chapter 3 Transforming Churches in Sixteenth-Century Florence
  15. Chapter 4 Community and Access in the Mendicant Church: Santa Maria del Carmine
  16. Chapter 5 Patronage and Place in Monastic Churches: Santa Trinita and San Pancrazio
  17. Chapter 6 Gender and Ceremony in the Nuns' Church: San Pier Maggiore
  18. Chapter 7 Behavior and Reform in the Civic Oratory: Orsanmichele
  19. Chapter 8 Duke Cosimo I de' Medici, Religious Reform, and the Florentine Church Interior
  20. Glossary
  21. Archival Bibliography
  22. Bibliography
  23. Index