MTU Library Catalogue

Syndetics cover image
Image from Syndetics

Nuns and reform art in early modern Venice : the architecture of Santi Cosma e Damiano and its decoration from Tintoretto to Tiepolo / Benjamin Paul.

By: Paul, Benjamin.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Farnham, Surrey, UK, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2012Description: xvii, 314 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9781409411864 (hbk.).Other title: Architecture of Santi Cosma e Damiano and its decoration from Tintoretto to Tiepolo.Subject(s): Chiesa dei Santi Cosma e Damiano (Venice, Italy) | Benedictine architecture -- Italy -- Venice | Benedictine art -- Italy -- Venice | Architecture and society -- Italy -- Venice | Art and society -- Italy -- Venice | Venice (Italy) -- CivilizationDDC classification: 726.50945
Contents:
Part 1: The architecture of the new convent of Santi Cosma e Damiano: its history and architecture -- The beginnings of the nunnery and Its first church -- The founding of the convent -- The first church -- The new convent and church -- Prologue: Scholarly reconstructions of the history of the new church -- The New Santi Cosma e Damiano -- The architecture of the new convent and church -- Early ground plans and views of the new convent -- Early ground plans for the church -- Early views of the new church -- The church interior -- Historical evaluation -- Santi Cosma e Damiano's Sister churches and their design -- The models: Santa Croce and Ognissanti -- Clues to authorship -- Cassinese reform architecture -- Part 2: The decoration of Santi Cosma e Damiano -- The alterpieces -- Tintoretto's Crucifixion and Cassinese spirituality -- Tintoretto's Santi Cosma e Damiano alterpiece -- the sixteenth-century frescoes -- Later decoration and the covenant with god.

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Decorated by Giovanni Buonconsiglio, Jacopo Tintoretto, Palma il Giovane, Sebastiano Ricci and Giambattista Tiepolo, the church of the former Benedictine female monastery Santi Cosma e Damiano occupies an outstanding position in Venice. The author of this study argues that from its foundation in 1481 to its dissolution in 1805, Santi Cosma e Damiano was a reform convent, and that its nuns employed art and architecture as a means to actively express their specific religious concerns. While on the one hand focusing, on the basis of extensive archival research, on the reconstruction of the history and construction of the convent, this study's larger concern is with the religious reform movement, its ideas concerning art and architecture, and with the convent as a space for female self-realization in early modern Venice.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-304) and index.

Part 1: The architecture of the new convent of Santi Cosma e Damiano: its history and architecture -- The beginnings of the nunnery and Its first church -- The founding of the convent -- The first church -- The new convent and church -- Prologue: Scholarly reconstructions of the history of the new church -- The New Santi Cosma e Damiano -- The architecture of the new convent and church -- Early ground plans and views of the new convent -- Early ground plans for the church -- Early views of the new church -- The church interior -- Historical evaluation -- Santi Cosma e Damiano's Sister churches and their design -- The models: Santa Croce and Ognissanti -- Clues to authorship -- Cassinese reform architecture -- Part 2: The decoration of Santi Cosma e Damiano -- The alterpieces -- Tintoretto's Crucifixion and Cassinese spirituality -- Tintoretto's Santi Cosma e Damiano alterpiece -- the sixteenth-century frescoes -- Later decoration and the covenant with god.

UCC fund.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Benjamin Paul is an Assistant Professor of Art History at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA.