Book contents
- Transforming the Church Interior in Renaissance Florence
- Transforming the Church Interior in Renaissance Florence
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Note to the Reader
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Accessing the Italian Church Interior
- Chapter 2 Transforming Churches in Fifteenth-Century Florence
- Chapter 3 Transforming Churches in Sixteenth-Century Florence
- Chapter 4 Community and Access in the Mendicant Church
- Chapter 5 Patronage and Place in Monastic Churches
- Chapter 6 Gender and Ceremony in the Nuns’ Church
- Chapter 7 Behavior and Reform in the Civic Oratory
- Chapter 8 Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici, Religious Reform, and the Florentine Church Interior
- Glossary
- Archival Bibliography
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 3 - Transforming Churches in Sixteenth-Century Florence
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 April 2022
- Transforming the Church Interior in Renaissance Florence
- Transforming the Church Interior in Renaissance Florence
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Note to the Reader
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Accessing the Italian Church Interior
- Chapter 2 Transforming Churches in Fifteenth-Century Florence
- Chapter 3 Transforming Churches in Sixteenth-Century Florence
- Chapter 4 Community and Access in the Mendicant Church
- Chapter 5 Patronage and Place in Monastic Churches
- Chapter 6 Gender and Ceremony in the Nuns’ Church
- Chapter 7 Behavior and Reform in the Civic Oratory
- Chapter 8 Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici, Religious Reform, and the Florentine Church Interior
- Glossary
- Archival Bibliography
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Traces the removal of nave choirs and screens from the churches of Florence in the later sixteenth century, in particular detailing Giorgio Vasari’s transformations of the mendicant churches. Places Florence in a broader Italian context.
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- Transforming the Church Interior in Renaissance FlorenceScreens and Choir Spaces, from the Middle Ages to Tridentine Reform, pp. 93 - 148Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022