Flagellant Confraternities and Italian Art, 1260-1610 : : Ritual and Experience / / Andrew Chen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package 2016-2018
• VerfasserIn: Chen, Andrew,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Visual and Material Culture, 1300 -1700 ; 5
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 10 color plates, 70 halftones

This book examines the art and ritual of flagellant confraternities in Italy from the fourteenth- to the seventeenth-centuries. Meeting regularly to beat themselves with whips, members of these confraternities concentrated on the suffering of Christ in the most extreme and committed way, and the images around them provided visual prompts for the Passion and the model suffering body. This study presents new findings related to a variety of artworks including altarpieces, banners, wall paintings, illuminated manuscripts, and paintings for the condemned, many from outside the Florence-Rome-Venice triangle.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700 -- Table of contents -- Abbreviations -- List of illustrations -- Photograph credits and copyright notices -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I Art and ritual, to 1450 -- 1. Flagellation and its settings -- 2. Images at entrances, and ascesis -- 3. Mass -- 4. Comforting -- 5. Processions -- Part II Transformations -- 6. Changes in ritual before Trent -- 7. Changes in imagery before Trent: Sansepolcro and Volterra -- 8. After Trent: Florence and Milan -- Epilogue: Global flagellation -- Bibliography -- Index of illuminated manuscripts (by location) -- Index of paintings (by location) -- Index of topics