Book contents
- Transforming the Church Interior in Renaissance Florence
- Transforming the Church Interior in Renaissance Florence
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Note to the Reader
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Accessing the Italian Church Interior
- Chapter 2 Transforming Churches in Fifteenth-Century Florence
- Chapter 3 Transforming Churches in Sixteenth-Century Florence
- Chapter 4 Community and Access in the Mendicant Church
- Chapter 5 Patronage and Place in Monastic Churches
- Chapter 6 Gender and Ceremony in the Nuns’ Church
- Chapter 7 Behavior and Reform in the Civic Oratory
- Chapter 8 Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici, Religious Reform, and the Florentine Church Interior
- Glossary
- Archival Bibliography
- Bibliography
- Index
Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 April 2022
- Transforming the Church Interior in Renaissance Florence
- Transforming the Church Interior in Renaissance Florence
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Note to the Reader
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Accessing the Italian Church Interior
- Chapter 2 Transforming Churches in Fifteenth-Century Florence
- Chapter 3 Transforming Churches in Sixteenth-Century Florence
- Chapter 4 Community and Access in the Mendicant Church
- Chapter 5 Patronage and Place in Monastic Churches
- Chapter 6 Gender and Ceremony in the Nuns’ Church
- Chapter 7 Behavior and Reform in the Civic Oratory
- Chapter 8 Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici, Religious Reform, and the Florentine Church Interior
- Glossary
- Archival Bibliography
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Introduces the transformation of the Florentine church interior in the late sixteenth century. Situates Florence within a broader European context, including both Protestant and Catholic alterations to sacred space in the same period.
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- Transforming the Church Interior in Renaissance FlorenceScreens and Choir Spaces, from the Middle Ages to Tridentine Reform, pp. 1 - 15Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022