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

Table of Contents

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 Qualità of mercy: (re)building confraternal charities in Renaissance Bologna Nicholas Terpstra
6. Passion, compassion, and the sorrows of women: Niccolò 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.

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