The large panel painting of the Passion in Palma de Mallorca is an impressive but little-studied ... more The large panel painting of the Passion in Palma de Mallorca is an impressive but little-studied work. This essay introduces a long-term, collaborative project that will examine the panel’s religious, historical, and art historical significance. While earlier scholarship has largely focused on questions of dating and stylistic attribution, we also explore possible explanations for the panel’s anomalous style as well as its meanings to the Clarissan nuns of Palma de Mallorca, who, we believe, were the panel’s primary viewers. We argue for the importance of this female community in commissioning the altarpiece and determining its key subjects and themes. These Clares shared with their powerful allies, the Franciscan Order, the papacy, and the royal house of Mallorca, a desire to serve and strengthen Christianity throughout their known world. The nuns could not participate in missionary activity abroad, but close to home were the non-Christian residents of Mallorca. For the nuns of San...
Mitteilungen Des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, 1990
Page 1. WICKED CHILDREN ON CALVARY AND THE BALDNESS OF ST. FRANCIS by Amy Neff Wicked children ..... more Page 1. WICKED CHILDREN ON CALVARY AND THE BALDNESS OF ST. FRANCIS by Amy Neff Wicked children ... The Baldness of St. Francis In the course of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, mocking children appear in art works commissioned by varying types of patrons. ...
Although the art historical importance of the Isaac Master is widely acknowledged, few have quest... more Although the art historical importance of the Isaac Master is widely acknowledged, few have questioned the meaning of his frescoes Isaac Blessing Jacob and Isaac Rejecting Esau in the Upper Church of S. Francesco, Assisi. A Franciscan text written about a decade before these were painted offers new insight into their message: a definition of the character and mission of the Friar Minor. At a time of contention over the meaning and practice of the Franciscan Rule, Jacob is shown as an exemplar of Franciscan brotherhood, humility, and evangelization, themes further developed in scenes of Joseph, Benjamin, and Saint Francis.
Page 1. Byzantium Westernized, Byzantium Marginalized: Two Icons in the Supplicationes variae* AM... more Page 1. Byzantium Westernized, Byzantium Marginalized: Two Icons in the Supplicationes variae* AMY NEFF University of Tennessee, Knoxville Abstract The Supplicationes variae, a richly illuminated manuscript of the late ...
Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 2002
... At Castell'Arquato, a second relief of the Dextera dei may have been the centrepiece... more ... At Castell'Arquato, a second relief of the Dextera dei may have been the centrepiece of a choir enclosure; it is inscribed 'Dextera Dei celum ... Andrea von Hillsen-Esch interprets the Hand at San Zeno as part of a facade programme influenced by the theology of Rupert of Deutz ...
Sanctity Pictured: The Art of the Dominican and Franciscan Orders in Renaissance Italy. Ed. Trinita Kennedy. Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN, 33-45., 2014
The large panel painting of the Passion in Palma de Mallorca is an impressive but little-studied ... more The large panel painting of the Passion in Palma de Mallorca is an impressive but little-studied work. This essay introduces a long-term, collaborative project that will examine the panel’s religious, historical, and art historical significance. While earlier scholarship has largely focused on questions of dating and stylistic attribution, we also explore possible explanations for the panel’s anomalous style as well as its meanings to the Clarissan nuns of Palma de Mallorca, who, we believe, were the panel’s primary viewers. We argue for the importance of this female community in commissioning the altarpiece and determining its key subjects and themes. These Clares shared with their powerful allies, the Franciscan Order, the papacy, and the royal house of Mallorca, a desire to serve and strengthen Christianity throughout their known world. The nuns could not participate in missionary activity abroad, but close to home were the non-Christian residents of Mallorca. For the nuns of San...
Mitteilungen Des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, 1990
Page 1. WICKED CHILDREN ON CALVARY AND THE BALDNESS OF ST. FRANCIS by Amy Neff Wicked children ..... more Page 1. WICKED CHILDREN ON CALVARY AND THE BALDNESS OF ST. FRANCIS by Amy Neff Wicked children ... The Baldness of St. Francis In the course of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, mocking children appear in art works commissioned by varying types of patrons. ...
Although the art historical importance of the Isaac Master is widely acknowledged, few have quest... more Although the art historical importance of the Isaac Master is widely acknowledged, few have questioned the meaning of his frescoes Isaac Blessing Jacob and Isaac Rejecting Esau in the Upper Church of S. Francesco, Assisi. A Franciscan text written about a decade before these were painted offers new insight into their message: a definition of the character and mission of the Friar Minor. At a time of contention over the meaning and practice of the Franciscan Rule, Jacob is shown as an exemplar of Franciscan brotherhood, humility, and evangelization, themes further developed in scenes of Joseph, Benjamin, and Saint Francis.
Page 1. Byzantium Westernized, Byzantium Marginalized: Two Icons in the Supplicationes variae* AM... more Page 1. Byzantium Westernized, Byzantium Marginalized: Two Icons in the Supplicationes variae* AMY NEFF University of Tennessee, Knoxville Abstract The Supplicationes variae, a richly illuminated manuscript of the late ...
Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 2002
... At Castell'Arquato, a second relief of the Dextera dei may have been the centrepiece... more ... At Castell'Arquato, a second relief of the Dextera dei may have been the centrepiece of a choir enclosure; it is inscribed 'Dextera Dei celum ... Andrea von Hillsen-Esch interprets the Hand at San Zeno as part of a facade programme influenced by the theology of Rupert of Deutz ...
Sanctity Pictured: The Art of the Dominican and Franciscan Orders in Renaissance Italy. Ed. Trinita Kennedy. Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN, 33-45., 2014
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