| ISBN |
1108833594 (hardcover) |
| 9781108833592 (hardcover) |
| Author |
Allen, Joanne |
| Title |
Transforming the church interior in Renaissance Florence : screens and choir spaces, from the Middle Ages to Tridentine Reform / Joanne Allen |
| Publisher |
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2022 |
| Physical desc. |
xix, 348 pages ; illustrations (chiefly colour); maps, plans ; 29 cm. |
| Note |
CB illustrations: page 46, figure 36 (W 107, f. 18r). |
| Bibliography etc. |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-337) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction. The European architectural context -- Accessing the Italian church interior. Choir precincts and screens -- The functions of screens -- Space and accessibility -- Images of the divided church interior -- Transforming churches in fifteenth-century Florence. Medieval Florence -- Quattrocento Florence: centralized choirs -- Quattrocento Florence: retrochoirs -- Transforming churches in sixteenth-century Florence. The sixteenth-century Italian context, c. 1500-1560 -- Florentine renovations, c. 1561-1564 -- Vasari's renovations of Santa Maria Novella and Santa Croce -- Florentine renovations in the 1570s and later -- Community and access in the Mendicant church: Santa Maria del Carmine. The tramezzo -- The Ascension Day festa -- Space and accessibility in the Carmine Church interior -- The removal of the Carmine tramezzo -- Patronage and place in monastic churches: Santa Trinita and San Pancrazio. The Benedictine Vallombrosans -- Santa Trinita -- San Pancrazio -- Gender and ceremony in the nuns' church: San Pier Maggiore. The civic role and status of San Pier Maggiore -- The spatial layout of the church -- The removal of the men's choir -- Behavior and reform in the civic oratory: Orsanmichele. Orsanmichele -- The iron tramezzo -- Alterations to the Orsanmichele interior in the late sixteenth century -- Duke Cosimo I de' Medici, religious reform, and the Florentine church interior. The Florentine church transformations: chronology, motivations, and reaction -- Enacting the Florentine church transformations: Vasari, Cosimo, and Altoviti. |
| Subject |
Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- W 107 |
| Screens (Church decoration) -- Italy -- Florence -- History -- To 1500 |
| Screens (Church decoration) -- Italy -- Florence -- History -- 16th century |
| Church decoration and ornament -- Italy -- Florence |
| Choirs (Architecture) -- Italy -- Florence |
| Architecture and religion -- Italy -- Florence |
| Church buildings in art |
| Christian art and symbolism |
| Renaissance -- Italy -- Florence |
| Florence (Italy) -- History -- 1421-1737 |
