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Augustinian art and meditation in Renaissance Florence : the choir altarpieces of Santo Spirito 1480-1510 /

"In The Choir Altarpieces of Santo Spirito, 1480-1510, Antonia Fondaras reunites the fifteenth-century altarpieces painted by Botticelli, Piero di Cosimo, Filippino Lippi, and other masters for the choir of the Augustinian church of Santo Spirito in Florence. Departing from a conventional focus...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fondaras, Antonia (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]
Series:Brill's studies in intellectual history. Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history ; v. 42.
Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 308.
Subjects:
Augustinians > Art patronage.
Santo Spirito (Church : Florence, Italy)
Augustinians.
Altarpieces, Italian > Italy > Florence > 15th century.
Altarpieces, Renaissance > Italy > Florence.
Augustinian art.
Altarpieces, Italian.
Altarpieces, Renaissance.
Art patronage.
Italy > Florence.
1400-1499
Table of Contents:
  • Saint Augustine, the Augustinian Hermits, and the Convent of Santo Spirito
  • The Santo Spirito Choir and the Presence of the Friars
  • The Santo Spirito Format : Fashioning Sacred Space
  • Discursive Meditation and Botticelli's Bardi Altarpiece
  • Hope and the Virtues : Piero di Cosimo's The Visitation with Saints Nicholas of Bari and Anthony Abbot
  • Caritas and Family : Filippino Lippi's Nerli Altarpiece
  • Faith and the Mirror of God : Agnolo del Mazziere's The Holy Trinity with Saints Mary Magdalen and Catherine of Alexandria.