Divine and Demonic Imagery at Tor de'Specchi, 1400-1500

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Divine and Demonic Imagery at Tor de'Specchi, 1400-1500 is written by Suzanne Scanlan and published by Taylor & Francis. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1040796966 (ISBN 10) and 9781040796962 (ISBN 13).

In the fifteenth century, the Oblates of Santa Francesca Romana, a fledgling community of religious women in Rome, commissioned an impressive array of artwork for their newly acquired living quarters, the Tor de'Specchi. The imagery focused overwhelmingly on the sensual, corporeal nature of contemporary spirituality, populating the walls of the monastery with a highly naturalistic assortment of earthly, divine, and demonic figures. This book draws on art history, anthropology, and gender studies to explore the disciplinary and didactic role of the images, as well as their relationship to important papal projects at the Vatican.