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The Renaissance pulpit : art and preaching in Tuscany, 1400-1550 / by Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby.
LIBRA N6919.T9 D42 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Debby, Nirit Ben-Aryeh.
- Series:
- Late medieval and early modern studies ; 6.
- Late medieval and early modern studies ; 6
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pulpits--Italy--Tuscany--History.
- Pulpits.
- Christian art and symbolism--Italy--Tuscany--Renaissance, 1450-1600.
- Christian art and symbolism.
- Christian art and symbolism--Italy--Tuscany--Medieval, 500-1500.
- Art and religion--Italy--Tuscany--History.
- Art and religion.
- Art, Italian--15th century.
- Art, Italian.
- Art, Italian--16th century.
- Art, Renaissance--Italy--Tuscany.
- Art, Renaissance.
- History.
- Italy--Tuscany.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 294 pages, 96 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (partly color) ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Turnhout : Brepols, 2007.
- Summary:
- This volume examines the relationship between preaching and art, addressing with particular detail the use of works of art in preaching and the importance of the pulpit itself. A challenging issue in the field of sermon studies is the relationship between preaching and art, in particular the manner in which preachers used works of art in their preaching and described specific pictures in their sermons; and the pulpit itself. The thesis of the book is that pulpits should be viewed in the context of the world of preaching in Renaissance Florence and in connection with sacred oratory. Indeed, like preached sermons, pulpits used rhetorical strategies to deliver religious messages. The author adopts an interdisciplinary approach to the topic by combining art history, historical analysis, and sermon studies; and she examines the pulpit's patronage, location, and function as well as its chronological development. This book combines a general survey of pulpits in Tuscany, with close analysis of five specific pulpits. Designed and executed by important artists located in Florence and Prato, these five pulpits are the most exquisite and impressive monuments of their type, and each has a complex and rich iconographic programme. The author reveals that the period between the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries constitutes a distinct phase in the development of pulpits, different from the earlier tradition, and from pulpits constructed after the Council of Trent and during the Catholic Reformation.
- Contents:
- Aims and Structure 1
- Methodology and Earlier Scholarship on the Subject 5
- Verbal and Visual Rhetoric 17
- Chapter 2 The Tradition of Tuscan Pulpits to 1400 23
- Romanesque Pulpits in Tuscany 24
- Gothic Pulpits in Tuscany 28
- Chapter 3 Patronage and Commemoration in the Renaissance Church 37
- Patronage of the Pulpit 38
- Commemorative Features of the Pulpit 39
- Chapter 4 Location and Function of the Pulpit 51
- Internal Structure of the Church 52
- Evidence for the Location and Function of the Pulpit 53
- The Position of the Pulpit in Relation to the Male/Female Division of the Church 66
- Chapter 5 Form and Content of the Renaissance Pulpit 73
- Form and Design of the Pulpits 74
- The Pulpit in Santa Maria Novella 77
- The Pulpit in Santa Croce 92
- Chapter 6 Praco's Santo Stefano Pulpits 113
- Santo Stefano in Prato 113
- The External Pulpit 118
- The Internal Pulpit 121
- Chapter 7 Performance, Spectacle, and the Renaissance Pulpit 129
- Theatre, Preaching, and Art 129
- Sacred Drama and the Visual Arts: A Two-Way Influence? 134
- Dramatic Narrative in the Italian Renaissance Pulpit 136
- Chapter 8 Donatello's San Lorenzo Pulpits 147
- Preaching Tradition and Earlier Pulpits in the Church of San Lorenzo 148
- Patronage, Location, and Function of Donatello's Ambones 151
- Form and Content of Donatello's Pulpits 154
- The Visual Rhetoric in Donatello's Pulpits 158
- Chapter 9 The Legacy of the Renaissance Pulpit 163
- The Tuscan Pulpit in the First Half of the Sixteenth Century 164
- Church Interiors in the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century 166
- San Carlo Borromeo: Pulpits and Preaching in Tridentine Italy 169.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [181]-189) and index.
- ISBN:
- 2503513425
- 9782503513423
- OCLC:
- 123375754
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