Nuns and Reform Art in Early Modern Venice - The Architecture of Santi Cosma e Damiano and its Decoration from Tintoretto to Tiepolo (Hardcover, New Ed)

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.

General

Imprint:	Ashgate Publishing Limited
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	2012
First published:	2012
Authors:	Benjamin Paul
Dimensions:	246 x 174mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	344
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-1-4094-1186-4
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Architectural structure & design Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > 1400 to 1600 > Renaissance art > General Promotions
LSN:	1-4094-1186-9
Barcode:	9781409411864

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