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.
2016-12-14 2016-12-14File Name: B01N2TY17J
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