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Item Number: 146980
Title: Women, Art and Observant Franciscan Piety: Caterina Vigri and the Poor Clares in Early Modern Ferrara
Author: Arthur, Kathleen Giles
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9789462984332
Description: Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018. 24cm., pbk., 252pp., 8 color, 64 b&w illus.

Summary: The Poor Clares convent of Corpus Domini was the first home of Saint Catherine of Bologna, but after her departure, the convent reinvented itself as a noblewomen’s retreat. In doing so, it transformed ideals of poverty, humility and women’s education. This book, grounded in archival research and close examination of artworks from the convent, explores the visual culture and social history of an early modern Franciscan women’s community. Its careful analysis yields new insights into the changing role of the community in the d’Este political and civic spheres.

Contents: 1. The Pious Women of Corpus Christi - Bernardina Sedazzari's House in Via Praisolo - Leaders of the Community - The Inventory of 1426- Ecclesiastical Vestments - Relics, Devotional Objects and Art - From Urban Hermits to Cloistered Nuns - Building a Public Image of Piety - San Guglielmo as a Poor Clares 'Anti-Model' - Building the First Church and Convent - The Poor Clares Form of Life - The Entombment and Adoration of the Host Altarpieces. 2. The Sette Armi Spirituali and its Audience - The Corpus Christi Community 1431-56 - Women's Education in Ferrara, Mantua and Urbino - Corpus Christi Library and Lectio Divina - The Sette Armi Spirituali and Teaching Novices. 3. Drawing for Devotion - Sister Caterina's Breviary - Nuns' Artwork - Aesthetic, Medium and Materials - The Kalendar and Psalter - Personalizing her Breviary - The Temporale and Hymnarium - Poverty, Penitence and Franciscan Saints in the Sanctorale - Vigri's Man of Sorrows and the Gaude Virgo Mater Christi. 4. Corpus Christi's Later Religious and Civic Identity - The Sette Armi Spirituali and Observant Reform - The Community and Casa Romei - The d'Este Duchesses as Patrons - Later Fifteenth-Century Art and Visual Culture - Corpus Christi as a Pantheon of d'Este Women. (Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700)

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