Art and the Augustinian Order in Early Renaissance Italy (Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West) - Hardcover

Book 20 of 41: Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West

Dunlop, Anne

 
9780754656555: Art and the Augustinian Order in Early Renaissance Italy (Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0754656551 ISBN 13: 9780754656555
Publisher: Routledge, 2007

Synopsis

The rise of the mendicant orders in the later Middle Ages coincided with rapid and dramatic shifts in the visual arts. The mendicants were prolific patrons, relying on artworks to instruct and impress their diverse lay congregations. Churches and chapels were built, and new images and iconographies developed to propagate mendicant cults. But how should the two phenomena be related? How much were these orders actively responsible for artistic change, and how much did they simply benefit from it? To explore these questions, Art and the Augustinian Order in Early Renaissance Italy looks at art in the formative period of the Augustinian Hermits, an order with a particularly difficult relation to art. As a first detailed study of visual culture in the Augustinian order, this book will be a basic resource, making available previously inaccessible material, discussing both well-known and more neglected artworks, and engaging with fundamental methodological questions for pre-modern art and church history, from the creation of religious iconographies to the role of gender in art.

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About the Author

Louise Bourdua is Senior Lecturer in the History of Art at the University of Aberdeen, UK. Anne Dunlop is Associate Professor in the Department of History of Art at Yale University, USA.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2007
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0754656551
ISBN 13 
9780754656555
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
250
Editor
Bourdua Louise