Author: CANNON, JOANNA
Title: Religious poverty, visual riches : art in the Dominican churches of central Italy in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries / Joanna Cannon
Description: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press 2013. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new. still in the publisher's original shrink wrap. Physical description; xi. 444 p. : ill. (some col.). map. plans ; 29 cm. Summary; 'Dominican friars were vowed to a life of religious poverty. and yet by the end of the fourteenth century their churches contained many visual riches: works of great aesthetic. spiritual and sometimes alos financial value. This study.seeks to understand how and why the friars accumulated and then put to use such visual wealth.Choosing to focus on a single administrative division - the Provincia Romana - ensures that material is abundant but not limitless. This study draws on the contents and decoration of the twenty-eight churches that by the mid-fourteenth century constituted the Dominican Provincia Romana (roughly equivalent to present-day Tuscany. Umbria and Lazio) as seen over the course of the first two centuries of the Order's existence.'' Subjects; Dominicans. Provincia romana — History. Dominicans — Italy. Central — History. Dominicans — Art patronage. Weight in Kg appr.:

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