Visual Cultures of Foundling Care in Renaissance Italy

Diana Bullen Presciutti (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

284 Seiten

2018
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-31617-1 (ISBN)

Artikel merken

The social problem of infant abandonment captured the public’s imagination in Italy during the fifteenth century, a critical period of innovation and development in charitable discourses. As charity toward foundlings became a political priority, the patrons and supporters of foundling hospitals turned to visual culture to help them make their charitable work understandable to a wide audience. Focusing on four institutions in central Italy that possess significant surviving visual and archival material, Visual Cultures of Foundling Care in Renaissance Italy examines the discursive processes through which foundling care was identified, conceptualized, and promoted. The first book to consider the visual culture of foundling hospitals in Renaissance Italy, this study looks beyond the textual evidence to demonstrate that the institutional identities of foundling hospitals were articulated by means of a wide variety of visual forms, including book illumination, altarpieces, fresco cycles, institutional insignia, processional standards, prints, and reliquaries. The author draws on fields as diverse as art history, childhood studies, the history of charity, Renaissance studies, gender studies, sociology, and the history of religion to elucidate the pivotal role played by visual culture in framing and promoting the charitable succor of foundlings.

Diana Bullen Presciutti is Lecturer of Art History at the University of Essex, UK.

Table of Contents to come.

Erscheinungsdatum	01.09.2018
Reihe/Serie	Visual Culture in Early Modernity
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	174 x 246 mm
Gewicht	480 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
ISBN-10	1-138-31617-2 / 1138316172
ISBN-13	978-1-138-31617-1 / 9781138316171
Zustand	Neuware