Research Catalog

Title

Visual cultures of foundling care in Renaissance Italy / Diana Bullen Presciutti.

Author

Presciutti, Diana Bullen

Publication

Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2015]

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Details

Description

xvi, 276 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

"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.

Series Statement

Visual culture in early modernity

Uniform Title

Visual culture in early modernity

Subjects

• Italy
• History
• To 1559
• History, 16th Century
• History, 15th Century
• Orphanages > history
• Hospitals > history
• Art > history
• Child, Orphaned > history
• Italy > Social conditions > 1268-1559
• Art and society > Italy > History > To 1500
• Foundlings > Institutional care > Italy > History > To 1500
• Charity in art
• Infants in art

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: Save the Children -- Framing Foundling Care in Renaissance Italy -- Emblematizing the 'New' Charity: The Swaddled Infant Segno and the Dedicated Foundling Hospital -- Dead Infants, Cruel Mothers, and Heroic Popes at the Hospital of Santo Spirito, Rome -- Saving the (Holy) Innocents at the Ospedale degli Innocenti, Florence -- The 'New' Charity Grows Old: Foundling Care in the Sixteenth Century -- Afterlives of the Swaddled Infant Segno.

ISBN

• 9781472457653
• 147245765X

LCCN

^^2015024456

OCLC

911518736

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library