The Confraternity of Mercy and the Portuguese Architecture of the Sixteen[th] Century
Contributor(s): Fernando Grilo
The Visual Culture of the Foundling Hospital in Central Italy, 1400–1600
Contributor(s): Megan Holmes
The Lady of Sorrows: Music, Devotion, and Politics in the Burgundian Netherlands
Contributor(s): Peter Jeffery
Benvenuto Cellini’s Bid for Membership in the Florentine Confraternity of San Giovanni Battista detta dello Scalzo
Contributor(s): Douglas N. Dow
An unpublished notice in the records of the confraternity of San Giovanni Battista detta dello Scalzo reveals that Benvenuto Cellini initiated a bid for membership in the company in 1557. Although Cellini seems an unlikely confratello, membership in a confraternity would have proved especially...
Toward a Catalogue of Confraternal Material in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana
Contributor(s): Starleen K. Meyer
This article introduces my current work-in-progress towards the identification, analysis and cataloguing of written and artistic sources belonging to the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan that focus on the increasingly important areas of confraternities, understood as spontaneously formed lay groups...
“The Illumination of Confraternity and Guild Statutes in Venice, ca. 1260–1500: Mariegola Production, Inonography, and Use.”
Contributor(s): Jonathan J.G. Alexander
La devoción popular a la Santa Vera Cruz. Fundación de cofradías penitenciales en el ámbito gaditano
Contributor(s): Francisco Espinosa de los Monteros Sánchez
With the end of the Middle Ages and in response to several factors, the devotion to the True Cross, introduced by the Franciscan friars, leads to the formation of the first penitential brotherhoods on the Iberian peninsula: the Vera Cruz brotherhoods. The first associations emerged in Spain at...
Le confraternite laicali nelle disposizioni sinodali seicentesche della Chiesa pesciatina
Contributor(s): Amleto Spicciani
This article examines the effects of the Catholic reform movement of the sixteenth century in a small Tuscan prelacy (Pescia) that in 1519 was exempted from the jurisdiction of the bishop of Lucca. Using the synodal legislation issued between 1606 and 1717, the article brings to light a...
Donor Portraits in Late Medieval Venice c. 1280–1413
Contributor(s): Angela Marisol Roberts
Sacred Territory, Sacred Brotherhood: Confraternities in the Bolognese Contado
Contributor(s): Matthew Thomas Sneider
This article focuses on the activities of confraternities in San Giovanni in Persiceto—a small town in the contado of Bologna—in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It considers their role in the spiritual lives of the brothers and their place in local religious culture. It...
The Development and Self-Definition of Penitential Confraternities in Seville, Spain, 1538–1563
Contributor(s): Reanne Eichele
During the sixteenth century many Catholics yearned for an active role in lay religiosity. One avenue to achieve this was through membership in a penitential confraternity. In the first half of the sixteenth century, the pioneering penitential confraternities concentrated on the development...
Beyond the Social and the Spiritual: Redefining the Urban Confraternities of Late Medieval Anatolia
Contributor(s): Rachel Goshgarian
This dissertation is the first comprehensive study of the phenomenon of the urban confraternity in thirteenth and fourteenth-century Anatolia. Urban confraternities in late medieval Anatolia played a range of roles in cities like Ankara, Erzincan, Konya and Sivas. The important political and...
Introduction
Contributor(s): Nicholas Terpstra
A Charitable 'Façade'? The Sculptural Decoration of the Scuola Grande di San Marco
Contributor(s): Lorenzo G. Buonanno
The meetinghouse of the Scuola Grande di San Marco possessed the most extravagant façade of any confraternity in Venice. At the same time, however, its sculptural decoration contained more references to charity than were found on any other scuola’s meetinghouse. This essay posits...
Architecture and Charity. Paradoxes and Conflicts in the Construction of the Scuola Grande di San Rocco in Venice (1517–1560)
Contributor(s): Gianmario Guidarelli
This article examines the role of architectural patronage at the Scuola Grande di San Rocco and explores the relationship between building and charity. The San Rocco confraternity hall underwent many changes during its design and construction phases, suggesting that confraternity members were...
Venerable Tradition or Reprehensible Luxury? A Scandal about Processional Display in the Scuola Grande di San Rocco
Contributor(s): Gabriele Köster
A conflict within the Scuola Grande di San Rocco in 1540 concerning the display for the annual procession of Corpus Domini shows clearly that in those years of religious discussion and reformation many members of the scuole grandi were seized by the same wish for religious renewal as...
The Offense of Romanitas: Jacopo Tintoretto’s Ceiling Paintings for the Scuola Grande di San Rocco
Contributor(s): Jessica Maratsos
This article examines the ceiling paintings executed by Jacopo Tintoretto for the Scuola Grande di San Rocco. The Venetian painter’s stylistic choices are analyzed utilizing the dialectic between romanitas and venezianità as elucidated by Manfredo Tafuri. This framework,...
Le Scuole Piccole nella Venezia dei Dogi. Note d’archivio per la storia delle confraternite veneziane
Contributor(s): Filomena Calabrese
Two Confraternity Statutes from Venice: The Scuola Grande di Santa Maria della Carità (c. 1300) and the Scuola Piccola del Santissimo Sacramento in San Felice (1541)
Contributor(s): Jonathan Glixon
Statutes of the Scuola Grande di Santa Maria della Carità
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