Christianity and the Renaissance: Image and Religious Imagination in the Quattrocento

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Illustrations ix
• Preface xv
• Bibliographical Note xvii
• Permission Acknowledgments xix
• Christianity, the Renaissance, and the Study of History - Environments of Experience and Imagination 1
• Notes 37
• Part One the Monastic World 39
• I: Monasteries, Friaries, and Nunneries in Quattrocento Florence 41
• 2: Lay Patronage and Observant Reform in Fifteenth-Century Florence 63
• 3 Augustinus Canonicus- Augustinus Eremita - A Quattrocento Cause Célèbre 99
• 4 Fra Angelico at San Marco Art and the Liturgy of Cloistered Life 108
• 5 the Tree of Life and the Holy Cross - Franciscan Spirituality in the Trecento and the Quattrocento 132
• Notes 155
• 6 Some Special Images for Carmelites, Circa 1330-1430 199
• 7 Civic Preaching in the Early Renaissance - Giovanni Dominici's Florentine Sermons 208
• Notes 222
• Part Two the Religious World of the Laity 227
• 8: Penitence and the Laity in Fifteenth-Century Florence 229
• 9 Sacred Eloquence - Humanist Preaching and Lay Piety in Renaissance Florence 267
• 10 the Scuole Grandi of Venice - Some Further Thoughts 295
• Ii Death and Christian Charity in the Confraternities of the Upper Tiber Valley 322
• 12 the Florentine Confraternites Today 328
• 13 Cult Objects and Artistic Patronage of the Fourteenth-Century Flagellant Confraternity of GesÙ Pellegrino 336
• Appendix 1 353
• Appendix 2 357
• Notes 357
• 14 the Word Made Flesh the Rappresentazioni of Mysteries and Miracles in Fifteenth-Century Florence 372
• 15 Music and Spectacle in Confraternity Drama of Fifteenth-Century Florence - The Reconstruction of a Theatrical Event 397
• 16 Thoughts on Florentine Fifteenth- Century Religious Spectacle 410
• 17 Sacred Mountains in Europe and America 413
• Notes 439
• Part Three the World of the Christian Humanist 443
• 18 Humanism and the Religious Crisis of the Late Quattrocento - Giovanni Caroli, O.P., and the Liber Dierum Lucensium 445
• Notes 463
• 19 Marsilio Ficino and the Medici - The Inner Dimensions of Patronage 484
• 20 Savonarola's Preaching and the Patronage of Art 514
• 21 Gian Francesco Pico Della Mirandola Savonarolan Apologetics and the Critique of Ancient Thought 531
• Part Four Coda on Method 533
• 22 Altarpieces and the Requirements of Patrons 564
• 23 Art Criticism and Icon-Theology 585
• Index 592

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