Apostolic Iconography and Florentine Confraternities in the Age of Reform
Author | : Mr Douglas N Dow |
Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2014-02-28 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781409440543 |
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Focusing on artists and architectural complexes which until now have eluded scholarly attention, this study examines three different confraternal organizations in sixteenth-century Florence. Douglas Dow explores how, through the emphasis on the apostles within their art programs, these corporate groups adapted existing iconography to their own purposes. He argues that their willful engagement with apostolic themes reveals the complex interaction between these organizations and the church’s program of reform.