Visual Cultures of Foundling Care in Renaissance Italy
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group; Routledge
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9781472457653
Subjects: Art and society; Italy, social conditions; Foundlings
Description: "The first book to consider the visual culture of foundling hospitals in Renaissance Italy, this study looks beyond the textual evidence to demonstrate that the institutional identities of foundling hospitals were articulated by means of a wide variety of visual forms, including book illumination, altarpieces, fresco cycles, institutional insignia, processional standards, prints, and reliquaries."--Provided by publisher.