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Depictions of women’s bodies capture a society’s deeply cherished aspirations as well as its often otherwise inexpressible fears. While all human forms communicate powerful symbolic meanings, women’s bodies in European culture were made... more
Depictions of women’s bodies capture a society’s deeply cherished aspirations as well as its often otherwise inexpressible fears. While all human forms communicate powerful symbolic meanings, women’s bodies in European culture were made to carry ideological freight far greater than the agency granted to women themselves. Iconic women in particular have been the vehicle of centuries of creative and scholarly interventions: virginal Marys, alluring Magdalenes, scholarly Sibyls, or heroic Judiths have shifted in iconography without entirely leaving behind the contradictions embedded in their earliest painted and sculpted forms. Representations of living early modern women have also been read as sites upon which to display dynastic identity, chart the porous boundaries between the sacred and the diabolical, or embody class anxieties. What happens, then, when the existing visual models can no longer successfully frame the woman to be depicted? How did artists and patrons contend with thi...
Author: Suzanne M. Scanlan Publisher: Amsterdam University Press In the fifteenth century, the Oblates of Santa Francesca Romana, a fledgling community of religious women in Rome, commissioned an impressive array of artwork for their... more
Author: Suzanne M. Scanlan
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
In the fifteenth century, the Oblates of Santa Francesca Romana, a fledgling community of religious women in Rome, commissioned an impressive array of artwork for their newly acquired living quarters, the Tor de'Specchi. The imagery focused overwhelmingly on the sensual, corporeal nature of contemporary spirituality, populating the walls of the monastery with a highly naturalistic assortment of earthly, divine, and demonic figures. This book draws on art history, anthropology, and gender studies to explore the disciplinary and didactic role of the images, as well as their relationship to important papal projects at the Vatican.
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
In the fifteenth century, the Oblates of Santa Francesca Romana, a fledgling community of religious women in Rome, commissioned an impressive array of artwork for their newly acquired living quarters, the Tor de'Specchi. The imagery focused overwhelmingly on the sensual, corporeal nature of contemporary spirituality, populating the walls of the monastery with a highly naturalistic assortment of earthly, divine, and demonic figures. This book draws on art history, anthropology, and gender studies to explore the disciplinary and didactic role of the images, as well as their relationship to important papal projects at the Vatican.
