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- catalog abstract ""Invisible City vividly portrays the religious world of seventeenth-century Naples, a city of familial and internecine rivalries, of religious devotion and intense urban politics, of towering structures built to house the virgin daughters of the aristocracy. Helen Hills demonstrates how the architecture of the convents and the nuns' bodies they housed existed both in parallel and in opposition to one another. She discusses these women as subjects of enclosure, as religious women, and as art patrons, but also as powerful agents whose influence extended beyond the convent walls. Though often ensconced in convents owing to their families' economic circumstances, many of these young women were able to extend their influence as a result of the role convents played both in urban life and in art patronage. The convents were rich and powerful organizations, riven with feuds and prey to the ambitions of viceregal and elite groups, which their thick walls could not exclude."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog contributor b13104309.
- catalog coverage "Naples (Italy) Church history.".
- catalog coverage "Naples (Italy) Religious life and customs.".
- catalog created "2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2004.".
- catalog description ""Invisible City vividly portrays the religious world of seventeenth-century Naples, a city of familial and internecine rivalries, of religious devotion and intense urban politics, of towering structures built to house the virgin daughters of the aristocracy. Helen Hills demonstrates how the architecture of the convents and the nuns' bodies they housed existed both in parallel and in opposition to one another. She discusses these women as subjects of enclosure, as religious women, and as art patrons, but also as powerful agents whose influence extended beyond the convent walls. Though often ensconced in convents owing to their families' economic circumstances, many of these young women were able to extend their influence as a result of the role convents played both in urban life and in art patronage. The convents were rich and powerful organizations, riven with feuds and prey to the ambitions of viceregal and elite groups, which their thick walls could not exclude."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-251) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: Convents and Conventual Life in Early Modern Italy -- 1. Cittadelle sacre and the Politics of Conventual Urbanism -- 2. Virginity and Enclosure -- 3. Dowries and Daughters -- 4. Living Like Ladies: Conventual Patronage -- 5. Convents and Conflict: Conventual Urbanism in Naples -- 6. Conventual Optics of Power -- Conclusion: Conventual Architecture as Metaphor for the Body".
- catalog extent "xii, 268 p., [40] p. of plates :".
- catalog identifier "0195117743".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Italy Italy Naples".
- catalog spatial "Italy Naples".
- catalog spatial "Italy Naples.".
- catalog spatial "Naples (Italy) Church history.".
- catalog spatial "Naples (Italy) Religious life and customs.".
- catalog subject "271/.9004573 21".
- catalog subject "Aristocracy (Social class) Italy Naples.".
- catalog subject "BX4220.I8 H55 2004".
- catalog subject "Church architecture Italy Naples.".
- catalog subject "Convents Italy Naples.".
- catalog subject "Monastic and religious life of women Italy Italy Naples History.".
- catalog subject "Monastic and religious life of women Italy Naples History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: Convents and Conventual Life in Early Modern Italy -- 1. Cittadelle sacre and the Politics of Conventual Urbanism -- 2. Virginity and Enclosure -- 3. Dowries and Daughters -- 4. Living Like Ladies: Conventual Patronage -- 5. Convents and Conflict: Conventual Urbanism in Naples -- 6. Conventual Optics of Power -- Conclusion: Conventual Architecture as Metaphor for the Body".
- catalog title "Invisible city : the architecture of devotion in seventeenth-century Neapolitan convents / Helen Hills.".
- catalog type "text".