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Nuns and Reform Art in Early Modern Venice
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.
National Union Catalog
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Il camerino delle pitture di Alfonso I
This important in-depth study is the fruit of several years of research which began in earnest with the discovery in the Prince of Wales Museum in Bombay, India, of the lost painting of Bacchus by Dosso Dossi which, almost certainly, was painted for the Camerino delle pitture in the Estense castle, Ferrara, at the time of Alfonso I. Vol. 1, which opens with newspaper articles and other texts by various authors on the discovery of the work in India, includes a study by Alessandro Ballarin of the two rooms which were commissioned by Alfonso I d'Este (1476-1534), an analysis of the literary sources, the rediscovered projects and the reconstruction of the Camerino in its original form. This stud...
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