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Dominican Women and Renaissance Art - The Convent of San Domenico of Pisa (Paperback)
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Dominican Women and Renaissance Art - The Convent of San Domenico of Pisa (Paperback)
Series: Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
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Starting from an inventory and other documents, Ann Roberts has
identified some 30 works of art that originated from the convent of
San Domenico of Pisa. She here examines those objects commissioned
for and made by the nuns during the fifteenth century; some of the
objects included have never before been published. One of her goals
in this study is to bring into the discussion of Renaissance art a
body of images that have been previously overlooked, because they
come from a non-Florentine context and because they do not fit
modern notions of the "development" of Renaissance style. She also
analyzes the function of the images - social as well as religious -
within the context of a female Dominican convent. Finally, she
offers descriptions of and documentation for the process of
patronage as it was practiced by cloistered women, and the making
of art in such enclosures. The author presents a catalogue of
works, which gives basic data and bibliography for the objects
described in the text. Roberts offers other valuable resources in
the appendices, including unpublished C19th inventories of the
objects in the convent at various moments, documents regarding the
commission of works of art for the convent, letters written by the
nuns, a list of the Prioresses of San Domenico, lists of nuns at
different points in the fifteenth and early sixteenth century, and
a list of the relics owned by the convent in the sixteenth century.
Roberts firmly grounds her interpretation in the values of the
Order to which the nuns belonged, and in the political and social
concerns of their city.
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