Book contents
- Reforming Art in Renaissance Venice
- Reforming Art in Renaissance Venice
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I
- Chapter One The Appeal of the Subversive
- Chapter Two Nakedness and the Lascivious
- Chapter Three The Limits of Enforcement
- Chapter Four A Reform in Quantity
- Part II
- Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter Four - A Reform in Quantity
Patriarch Lorenzo Priuli’s Visitations
from Part I
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 January 2025
Book contents
- Reforming Art in Renaissance Venice
- Reforming Art in Renaissance Venice
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I
- Chapter One The Appeal of the Subversive
- Chapter Two Nakedness and the Lascivious
- Chapter Three The Limits of Enforcement
- Chapter Four A Reform in Quantity
- Part II
- Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Chapter 4 looks at the Patriarch Lorenzo Priuli’s inspections of the parishes of Venice in the 1590s. The documentary evidence shows that this visitation actively encouraged the commissioning of ever more devotional artworks for the city’s churches. It also gave resolute institutional backing to the parish confraternities of the Blessed Sacrament. A variety of sources show that Priuli’s orders were frequently carried out swiftly by these Scuole, leading to radical transformations to the churches of Venice.
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- Reforming Art in Renaissance Venice , pp. 183 - 242Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025