Clothing and religious experience. Written on clothes/written in clothes ; Clothing the Virgin : art, relics and power in Prato -- Men and religious clothing. Symbolism, vows and recognition ; Religious habits and visual propaganda : the vision of the Blessed Reginald of Orlà‚eans ; Carmelites and Franciscans ; Hermits, habits and history : the dress of the Augustinian hermits -- Women and religious clothing. Dressing the part ; 'Naked and ye clothed me' : Saint Catherine of Siena, clothing and visionary experience ; Clothing as salvation : the life and representation of Santa Francesca Romana ; Women, weaving and salvation : the Allegory of the afterlife in San Michele, Paganico -- Dressing for eternity. Visual and literary accounts of clothing for the end of time.
Summary:
Through a series of case studies of Italian art from the 14th to the 16th century, this book explores the relationship of clothing to salvation.
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