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November 8, 2004
Anabel Thomas Art and Piety in the Female Religious Communities of Renaissance Italy: Iconography, Space, and Religious Woman’s Perspective New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 430 pp.; 12 color ills.; 93 b/w ills. Cloth $132.00 (0521811880)
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With Art and Piety in the Female Religious Communities of Renaissance Italy: Iconography, Space, and the Religious Woman’s Perspective, Anabel Thomas sets out to correct what she considers to be general misconceptions about art in female religious communities in Renaissance Tuscany and Umbria. Among the most significant of these suppositions is the view that female religious communities not only housed few works of art, but that those works were limited to the public areas of...