Item Number: 122478 Title: Acting on Faith: The Confraternity of the Gonfalone in Renaissance Rome Author: Wisch, Barbara ; Nerida Newbigin Price: Not Available ISBN: 9780916101749 Description: Philadelphia: Saint Joseph's University Press, 2013. 31cm., hardcover, 512pp., 238 illus., most in color. Contents: Prologue: Acts of Consolidation ; Acts of Faith - The Statutes of 1495 and 1584 ; Acts 'that befit women' - Sisters in the Brotherhood ; In the Public Eye I - St. Lucy in the Spotlight In the Public Eye II: Visualiziing Santa Lucia Nuova ; Virgo ex machina I: Santa Maria Maggiore ; Virgo ex macchina II: Santa Maria in Aracoeli ; Change of Scene - Outside the Walls at Santa Maria Annunziata ; Acting Mercifully - Shelter Under the Virgin's Mantle ; Enacting the Passion - Procession and Plays ; A Towering O - The Colosseum as Theater ; Redacting the Passion - Print and Performance ; Transacting Faith - The passion Play, the Monte di Pieta, and the Jews in 1539 ; Creating a New Stage - The Oratory as Ritual Space ; Acting on Faith - The Decoration of the Oratory of the Gonfalone ; Appendix A - Inventory of 1498 ; Appendix B - Play texts i 'Mazzo XII'. (Early Modern Catholicism and the Visual Arts, 7) We regret to inform you that this title is no longer available. P.O. Box 3904, Kingston, New York 12402 US Phone: 845-331-8519 Fax: 845-331-0852 Email: michael@artbooks.com |
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