"Quant'è bella giovinezza: Youth and the Medici in Later Quattrocento Florence."

Article | Contributor(s): Domenico Angelo Zanrè

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...

A Digital Archive of the Architecture of Charity: Venice, c.1100–1797

Article | Contributor(s): Raymond Lifchez, Luca Trolese

The Architectural Visual Resources Library of the Department of Architecture, College of Environmental Design, University of California Berkeley, offers to scholars and students of Venetian social and architectural history a digital database of approximately a thousand images of 139 buildings and...

A Major Confraternity Commission in Quito, Ecuador: the Church of El Sagrario

Article | Contributor(s): Susan V. Webster

An Unusual Privilege of Early Modern Roman Confraternities

Article | Contributor(s): Peter Blastenbrei

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

Article | Contributor(s): Abigail Firey

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...

Assistance to the Poor on a Royal Model: The Example of the Misericórdias in the Portuguese Empire from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century

Article | Contributor(s): Isabel dos Guimarães Sá

Belief, Devotion, and Memory in Early Modern Italian Confraternities

Article | Contributor(s): Lance Lazar

Benvenuto Cellini’s Bid for Membership in the Florentine Confraternity of San Giovanni Battista detta dello Scalzo

Article | 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An unpublished notice in the records of the confraternity of San Giovanni Battista detta dello Scalzo reveals that Benvenuto Cellini initiated a bid for membership in the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...

Between Piety and Sin: Zaragoza's Confraternity of San Roque, Syphilis, and Sodomy

Article | Contributor(s): Cristian Berco

Beyond the Social and the Spiritual: Redefining the Urban Confraternities of Late Medieval Anatolia

Article | 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...

Bit Part or Leading Role? Confraternal Drama Studies in the Academy

Article | Contributor(s): Nerida Newbigin

Black Confraternity Members Performing Afro-Christian Identity in a Renaissance Festival in Mexico City in 1539

Article | Contributor(s): Miguel A. Valerio

In February 1539, Mexico City was the stage of a lavish two-day festival meant to commemorate the Truce of Nice, signed the year before between Emperor Charles V and King Francis I of France at Aigues-Mortes. In this article, I analyze Bernal Díaz del Castillo’s description of a performance by...

Bolognese ‘Orations’ between Song and Silence: The Laude of the Confraternity of Santa Maria della Morte

Article | Contributor(s): Gioia Filocamo

The flagellant confraternity of “Santa Maria della Morte” (Saint Mary of Death) in Bologna, established in 1336, was the first institution to systematically take care of the spiritual needs of those sentenced to death. This charitable activity, highly professionalized, followed a set of...

Bringing God to the People: Jesuit Confraternities in Italy in the Mid-Sixtreenth Century

Article | Contributor(s): Lance Lazar

Charity and Confessional Difference in Seventeenth-Century France: The Maison de Charité of Loudun, 1648-1685

Article | Contributor(s): Edwin Bezzina

Charity for and by the Poor: Franciscan and Indigenous Confraternities in Mexico, 1526–1700

Article | Contributor(s): Laura Dierksmeier

Charity, Poor Relief, and Politics in Renaissance Florence, Bologna and Milan. A Research Project

Article | Contributor(s): Nicholas Terpstra

Civic Christianity in Fifteenth-Century Treviso: The Confraternity and Hospital of Santa Maria dei Battuti

Article | Contributor(s): David D’Andrea