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Invisible City: The Architecture of Devotion in Seventeenth-Century Neapolitan Convents

Invisible City: The Architecture of Devotion in Seventeenth-Century Neapolitan Convents

Hills, Helen

Hardcover

Religion General General ArtArchitecture History

Publisher Price: $140.00

ISBN10: 0195117743
ISBN13: 9780195117745
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: Jan 25 2004
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.30
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.50 Depth: 9.54
Language: English
More than any other European city, Baroque Naples was dominated by convents. Behind their imposing facades and highly decorated churches, the convents of Naples housed the daughters of the city's most exclusive families, women who, despite their cloistered existence, were formidable players in the city's power structure. Invisible City vividly portrays the religious world of seventeenth-century Naples, a city of familial and internecine rivalries, of religious devotion and intense urban politics, of towering structures built to house the virgin daughters of the aristocracy. Helen Hills demonstrates how the architecture of the convents and the nuns' bodies they housed existed both in parallel and in opposition to one another. She discusses these women as subjects of enclosure, as religious women, and as art patrons, but also as powerful agents whose influence extended beyond the convent walls. Though often ensconced in convents owing to their families' economic circumstances, many

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