Nuns, Family, and Interfamilial Dynamics of Art Patronage in Post-Tridentine Roman Convents

Despite Tridentine efforts to curtail family influence and interference in convents through the enforcement of strict enclosure and regulation of their governance, families of the civic, feudal, and papal aristocracy in seventeenth-century Rome maintained close ties with their relatives in the city&...

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主要作者: Dunn, Marilyn ca. 20./21. Jh. (Author)
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语言:English
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出版: Sixteenth Century Journal Publ. [2017]
In: The sixteenth century journal
Year: 2017, 卷: 48, 发布: 2, Pages: 323-356
IxTheo Classification:CD Christianity and Culture
KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history
KBJ Italy
KCA Monasticism; religious orders
KDB Roman Catholic Church
Further subjects:B Art patronage 16th century
B Counter-Reformation
B History of Rome (Italy) 1420-1798
B Convents Italy History
B Church history of Rome (Italy)
B 17th century architecture patronage
B Nuns History
B Family Relations History
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总结:Despite Tridentine efforts to curtail family influence and interference in convents through the enforcement of strict enclosure and regulation of their governance, families of the civic, feudal, and papal aristocracy in seventeenth-century Rome maintained close ties with their relatives in the city's female convents, institutions which played a central role in strategies of the Counter- Reformation and impacted the artistic landscape of the city. This article examines patterns of nun-family interrelations within the mechanisms of conventual art patronage inserting these relationships into the distinctive social-political- religious ambience of papal Rome and family social strategies. Although acknowledging traditional devotional or social-political motivations for family patronage of convents, this article suggests a more collaborative model of conventual art patronage engaged in by nuns and their families and argues that post-Tridentine Roman convents and their nuns assumed a greater autonomy as patrons who were less dependent on extraconventual family patronage.
ISSN:0361-0160
Contains:Enthalten in: The sixteenth century journal