Acting on faith
Subtitle: the Confraternity of the gonfalone in Renaissance Rome
By: by Barbara Wisch and Nerida Newbigin
Contributors: Newbigin, Nerida
Series: Early modern Catholicism and the visual arts series -- v. 7
Publisher: Saint Joseph's University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9780916101749
Subjects: Passion-plays; Confraternities; Renaissance Arts; Arciconfraternita del gonfalone (Rome, Italy); History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Setting the scene; title: Acts of consolidation; title: Acts of faith: the statutes of 1495 and 1584; title: Acts "that befit women": sisters in the brotherhood; title: In the public eye I: St. Lucy in the spotlight; title: In the public eye II: visualizing Santa Lucia Nuova; title: Virgo ex machina I: Santa Maria Maggiore; title: Virgo ex machina II: Santa Maria in Aracoeli; title: Change of scene: outside the walls At Santa Maria Annunziata; title: Acting mercifully: shelter under the Virgin's mantle; title: Enacting the passion: processions and plays; title: Towering O: the Colosseum as theater; title: Redacting the passion: print and performance; title: Transacting faith: the passion play, the Monte di Pieta, and the Jews in 1539; title: Creating a new stage: the oratory as ritual space; title: Acting on faith: the decoration of the Oratory of the Gonfalone.