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Visual Cultures of Foundling Care in Renaissance Italy (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Visual Cultures of Foundling Care in Renaissance Italy (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Visual Culture in Early Modernity
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The social problem of infant abandonment captured the public's
imagination in Italy during the fifteenth century, a critical
period of innovation and development in charitable discourses. As
charity toward foundlings became a political priority, the patrons
and supporters of foundling hospitals turned to visual culture to
help them make their charitable work understandable to a wide
audience. Focusing on four institutions in central Italy that
possess significant surviving visual and archival material, Visual
Cultures of Foundling Care in Renaissance Italy examines the
discursive processes through which foundling care was identified,
conceptualized, and promoted. The first book to consider the visual
culture of foundling hospitals in Renaissance Italy, this study
looks beyond the textual evidence to demonstrate that the
institutional identities of foundling hospitals were articulated by
means of a wide variety of visual forms, including book
illumination, altarpieces, fresco cycles, institutional insignia,
processional standards, prints, and reliquaries. The author draws
on fields as diverse as art history, childhood studies, the history
of charity, Renaissance studies, gender studies, sociology, and the
history of religion to elucidate the pivotal role played by visual
culture in framing and promoting the charitable succor of
foundlings.
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