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Invisible city :

(Number (ISBN

0195117743

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0195353536

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128047100X

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142376126X

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6610471002

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9780195117745

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9780195353532

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9781280471001

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9781423761266

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9786610471003

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0195117743

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b727158

Title Proper

Invisible city :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

the architecture of devotion in seventeenth century Neapolitan convents /

First Statement of Responsibility

Helen Hills.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Oxford University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2004.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xii, 268 pages) :

Other Physical Details

illustrations (some color)

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-251) and index.

Text of Note

INTRODUCTION: Convents and Conventual Life in Early Modern Italy; 1 Cittadelle sacre and the Politics of Conventual Urbanism; 2 Virginity and Enclosure; 3 Dowries and Daughters; 4 Living Like Ladies: Conventual Patronage; 5 Convents and Conflict: Conventual Urbanism in Naples; 6 Conventual Optics of Power; CONCLUSION: Conventual Architecture as Metaphor for the Body; Notes; Glossary; A; B; C; D; E; G; L; M; O; P; R; S; T; V; Z; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z.

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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 of these young women were able to extend their influence as a result of the role convents played both in urban life and in art patronage.; The convents were rich and powerful organizations, riven with feuds and prey to the ambitions of viceregal and elite groups, which their thick walls could not exclude. Even today, Neapolitan convents figure prominently in the city's fabric. In analyzing the architecture of these august institutions, Helen Hills skillfully reads conventual architecture as a metaphor for the body of the aristocratic virgin nun, mapping out the dialectic between flesh and stone.

Title

Invisible city.

International Standard Book Number

0195117743

Aristocracy (Social class)-- Italy-- Naples.

Church architecture-- Italy-- Naples.

Convents-- Italy-- Naples.

Monastic and religious life of women-- Italy-- Naples-- History.

Aristocracy (Social class)

Church architecture.

Convents.

Monastic and religious life of women.

RELIGION-- Institutions & Organizations.

Naples (Italy), Church history.

Naples (Italy), Religious life and customs.

Italy, Naples.

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Edition

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Book number

Hills, Helen.

Date of Transaction

20201213231732.0

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