Apostolic Iconography and Florentine Confraternities in the Age of Reform

Download or read book Apostolic Iconography and Florentine Confraternities in the Age of Reform written by Mr Douglas N Dow and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-02-28 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on artists and architectural complexes which until now have eluded scholarly attention, this study examines three different confraternal organizations in sixteenth-century Florence. Douglas Dow explores how, through the emphasis on the apostles within their art programs, these corporate groups adapted existing iconography to their own purposes. He argues that their willful engagement with apostolic themes reveals the complex interaction between these organizations and the church’s program of reform.