Confraternities and the Visual Arts in Renaissance Italy. Ritual, Spectacle, Image

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Introduction Barbara Wisch and Diane Cole Ahl 1. Confraternity and community: mobilizing the sacred in times of Plague Louise Marshall 2. 'In corpo di compagnia': art and devotion in the Compagnia della Purificazione e di San Zanobi of Florence Diane Cohl 3. The Compagnia della Purificazione e di San Zanobi in Florence: a reconstruction of its Residence at San Marco, 1440-1506 Ann Matchette 4.The acquisition of art by a Florentine youth confraternity: the case of Arcangelo Raffaello Konrad Eisenbichler 5. The Qualit... of mercy: (re)building confraternal charities in Renaissance Bologna Nicholas Terpstra 6. Passion, compassion, and the sorrows of women: Niccol- dell'Arca's Lamentation over the Dead Christ for the Bolognese confraternity of Santa Maria della Vita Randi Klebanoff 7. The decorum of the Passion: the plays of the confraternity of the Gonfalone in the Roman Colosseum, 1490-1539 Nerida Newbigin 8. New themes for new rituals: the Crucifixion Altarpiece by Roviale Spagnuolo for the Oratory of the Gonfalone in Rome Barbara Wish 9. Appropriating space: woman's place in the confraternal life at Santo Spirito in Sassia, Rome Eunice D. Howe 10. 'E faucibus daemonis': daughters of prostitutes, the first Jesuits, and the Compagnia delle Vergini Miserabili di Santa Caterina della Rosa Lance G. Lazar 11. 'She is among all virgins the queen ... so worthy a patron ... for maidens to copy': Livio Agresti, Cardinal Federico Cesi, and the Compagnia delle Vergini Miserabili di Santa Caterina della Rosa Louise Smith Bross Selected bibliography Index.