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

Anne Dunlop, Louise Bourdua

ISBN 10: 0754656551 / ISBN 13: 9780754656555

Published by Routledge 2007-09-26, 2007

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Art and the Augustinian Order in Early Renaissance Italy (Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West)
• Publisher: Routledge 2007-09-26
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0754656551
• ISBN 13: 9780754656555
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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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.

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.