“St Bridget of Sweden Receiving the Rule of Her Order” (1459; pictured at the top of this page), interesting not only for the obvious influence of Antique models in the swirling draperies and the grace of the figures but also for the way the female saint, who is clasping the hand ...
Finally, I conclude by looking at how Supra montem, a 1289 papal bull calling for Franciscan supervision of lay penitents, changed the terms of urban lay sanctity, emphasizing a lay saint's religious affiliation and internal spiritual development over his or her civic identity and involvement....
This article highlights the artistic and conceptual relevance of the iconographic type of the Coronation of Mary in Italy during the Late Middle Ages and Early Modernity. We have analyzed 14 Italian Renaissance paintings, aiming to discover the possible
Corrado was the name of a 14th-century saint from Piacenza, Italy. Cosimo Cosimo is a variation of Cosmo which means “universe” or “order; beauty”. Pronounced as KAW-zee-mo or KO-zee-mo. Cosimo de Medici was the first of the Medici dynasty to wield power in Florence during much ...
Thanks to Albrecht von Eyb, Giovanni Lamola, Pierpaolo Vergerio and other humanists, we have acquired a sense of the importance of Jerome as the patron saint of humanist rhetoricians. A remote echo of that Renaissance cult may have led Charles William Dyson Perrins (1864–1958) to invest ...
In another instance, Marinella employs the expression "blood-filled theater" (p. 230), which gives startling distinction to Saint Francis's place of martyrdom and complements the phrases "great theater" and "fearful theater" in the citation above; these expressions, which evoke scenes of ...
The Florentine example was followed by many parishes around Italy: in 1968 the Franciscan Brothers of the church of San Ferdinando in Milan organized a prayer wake for "Vietnam and oppressed peoples". In one of their leaflets the Milanese Brotherhood wrote: The existence of vast guerrilla ...
Saint Bonaventure ; canonized April 14, 1482; feast day July 15) was a leading medieval theologian, minister general of the Franciscan order, and cardinal bishop of Albano. He wrote several works on the spiritual life and recodified the constitution of h
Raphael:Saint Michael Overwhelming the DemonSaint Michael Overwhelming the Demon(also known asThe Small Saint Michael), oil on wood by Raphael, c. 1505; in the Louvre Museum, Paris. 30 × 26 cm. High Renaissanceart, whichflourishedfor about 35 years, from the early 1490s to 1527, when Ro...
and sects down to the 16th century appropriated his prophecy of a third age. But Joachim has always had a double reputation, as saint and as heretic, for cautious Christian thinkers and leaders have seen his writings as highly dangerous. The debate as to whether he was orthodox or heretic ...