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Nuns As Artists

The Visual Culture of a Medieval Convent

Nuns As Artists( )
Author: Hamburger, Jeffrey
Series title:California Studies in the History of Art Ser.
ISBN:978-0-520-20386-0
Publication Date:May 1997
Publisher:University of California Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $78.95USD $78.95
Book Description:

Jeffrey F. Hamburger's groundbreaking study of the art of female monasticism explores the place of images and image-making in the spirituality of medieval nuns during the later Middle Ages. Working from a previously unknown group of late-fifteenth-century devotional drawings made by a Benedictine nun for her cloistered companions, Hamburger discusses the distinctive visual culture of female communities. The drawings discovered by Hamburger and the genre to which they belong have...
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Book Details
Pages:344
Detailed Subjects: Art / Subjects & Themes / Religious
Religion / Christian Church / History
Religion / Christianity / Catholic
Art / Women Artists
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):7.293 x 10.14 x 1.126 Inches
Book Weight:1.923 Pounds



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