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Divine and Demonic Imagery at Tor de'Specchi, 1400-1500: Religious Women and Art in 15th-century Rome(Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700)

Divine and Demonic Imagery at Tor de'Specchi, 1400-1500: Religious Women and Art in 15th-century Rome(Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700)


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In the fifteenth century, the Oblates of Santa Francesca Romana, a fledgling community of religious women in Rome, commissioned an impressive array of artwork for their newly acquired living quarters, the Tor de'Specchi. The imagery focused overwhelmingly on the sensual, corporeal nature of contemporary spirituality, populating the walls of the monastery with a highly naturalistic assortment of earthly, divine, and demonic figures. This book draws on art history, anthropology, and gender studies to explore the disciplinary and didactic role of the images, as well as their relationship to important papal projects at the Vatican.

Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations, Acknowledgements, Introduction: Demonic and Divine Bodies, Chapter 1: Sanctity on the Threshold: Liminality and Corporeality at Tor de'Specchi, Chapter 2: Painted Visions and Devotional Practices at Tor de'Specchi, Chapter 3: Dining and Discipline at Tor de'Specchi: The Refectory as Ritual Space, Chapter 4: The Devil in the Refectory: Bodies Imagined at Tor de'Specchi, Epilogue : Imagining the Canonization of Francesca Romana, Appendix A: Statutes of Ordination for the Beata Francesca, Bibliography, Index

About the Author :
Suzanne Scanlan is a Lecturer in the History of Art and Visual Culture at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI.

Review :
"Scanlan offers an extensive survey of this important example of feminine patronage and art and, with her focus on liminality and corporeality, opens stimulating perspectives. Her pleasant writing style makes it easy for readers to immerse themselves in the fifteenth-century setting." - Kirsten Lee Bierbaum, Renaissance Quarterly, Winter 2019 "Suzanne Scanlan's Divine and Demonic Imagery at Tor de' Specchi is a carefully delineated and circumscribed study ... [it is] a welcome addition to English-language scholarship on Santa Francesca Romana (St. Frances of Rome, d. 1440)." - Cordelia Warr, Speculum, 95/1 (January 2020) "Divine and Demonic Imagery presents a persuasive argument for the visual as primary documentation for the study of church history. ... Suzanne M. Scanlan coordinates her reading of this extraordinary imagery [of artwork at Tor de'Specchi] through the multivalent lens of late medieval optical theory, the theology of visions, and then contemporary Italian texts to guide her readers through the meditative and mnemonic practices of these religious women." - Diane Apostolos-Cappadona, Church History, October 2019


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781040791066
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Religious Women and Art in 15th-century Rome
  • ISBN-10: 1040791069
  • Publisher Date: 01 Oct 2025
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • Series Title: Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700


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