Barbara Wisch and Diane Cole Ahl, eds.
Confraternities and the Visual Arts in Renaissance Italy: Ritual, Spectacle, Image
New York:
Cambridge University Press,
1999.
314 pp.; 65 b/w ills.
Cloth
$90.00
(0521662885)
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This is the third major volume of collected essays on Italian confraternities to emerge in the space of two years (the others are John Patrick Donnelly S. J. and Michael W. Maher, S. J., eds., Confraternities and Catholic Reform in Italy, France, and Spain, Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies 44 [Kirksville, MO: Truman State University Press, 1999]; and Nicholas Terpstra, ed., The Politics of Ritual Kinship: Confraternities and Social Order in Early Modern Italy, [New...