Introduction

Article | Contributor(s): Nicholas Terpstra

A Charitable 'Façade'? The Sculptural Decoration of the Scuola Grande di San Marco

Article | 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)

Article | 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

Article | 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

Article | 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,...

Review of L'Archivio Consorziale del clero urbano di Bologna (secoli XI — XX). Inventario. Con un saggio storico di Felice Gallinetti

Review | Contributor(s): Nicholas Terpstra

Le Scuole Piccole nella Venezia dei Dogi. Note d’archivio per la storia delle confraternite veneziane

Article | Contributor(s): Filomena Calabrese

Review of Zbožných duší úl. Náboženská bratrstva v kultuře ranĕnovovĕké Moravy [A Hive of Devout Souls. Religious Fraternities in the Culture of Early Modern Moravia]

Review | Contributor(s): Jozef Matula

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)

Article | Contributor(s): Jonathan Glixon

Statutes of the Scuola Grande di Santa Maria della Carità

Article | Contributor(s): Jonathan Glixon

Appendix: The Prologue from the Original Latin Statute of the Scuola Grande di Santa Maria della Carità

Article | Contributor(s): Abigail Firey

Statutes of the Confraternity of the Most Holy Sacrament in the Church of San Felice, Venice

Article | Contributor(s): Jonathan Glixon

Savonarola’s Army of Boys: An Investigation into Ideologies of Gender and Age in Late Fifteenth-Century Florence

Article | Contributor(s): Maya Corry

From War to Peace: Archery and Crossbow Guilds in Flanders 1300–1500

Article | Contributor(s): Laura Crombie

Review of Gli statuti delle confraternite modenesi dal X al XVI secolo

Review | Contributor(s): Konrad Eisenbichler

Review of Il mercante, l’ospedale, i fanciulli. La donazione di Francesco Datini, Santa Maria Nuova e la fondazione degli Innocenti

Review | Contributor(s): Nicholas Terpstra

Review of I Sacri Monti. Bibliografia italiana

Review | Contributor(s): Laura Prelipcean

Early Medici Patronage and the Confraternity of the Buonomini di San Martino

Article | Contributor(s): Samantha Hughes-Johnson

Medici confraternal patronage is usually associated with public spectacle. Nevertheless, the bonds that this family forged with smaller lay brotherhoods (though the intent was perhaps equally political as with larger groups) can reveal a contrasting view of the clan. Previous studies concerning...

Imágenes barrocas en las reglas de la cofradías sevillanas

Article | Contributor(s): David Granado Hermosín

This article examines the principal devotional figures used by confraternities in Seville (Spain) as part of their Holy Week devotions. It begins with some general comments on the statutes of these confraternities and then moves to a discussion of each confraternity and its seventeenth-century...

More Catholic than Rome: Art and Lay Spirituality at Venice’s Scuola di S. Fantin, 1562-1605

Article | Contributor(s): Meryl Faith Bailey