TY - BOOK ID - 77904869 TI - Nuns as artists : the visual culture of a medieval convent PY - 1997 SN - 0520917375 0585108676 9780520917378 9780585108674 9780520203860 0520203860 PB - Berkeley : University of California Press, DB - UniCat KW - Christian art and symbolism KW - Devotional objects KW - Nuns as artists KW - Visual Arts KW - Art, Architecture & Applied Arts KW - Decorative Arts KW - Women artists KW - Art, Christian KW - Art, Ecclesiastical KW - Arts in the church KW - Christian symbolism KW - Ecclesiastical art KW - Symbolism and Christian art KW - Religious art KW - Symbolism KW - Symbolism in art KW - Church decoration and ornament KW - Religious articles KW - Sacramentals KW - Liturgical objects KW - Catholic Church. KW - Catholic Church KW - Benediktinerinnenabtei St. Walburg (Eichstätt, Germany) KW - Benediktinerinnen-Abtei St. Walburg (Eichstätt, Germany) KW - Benediktinerinnen-Abtei Sankt Walburg (Eichstätt, Germany) KW - Benediktinerinnenkloster zu Eichstätt (Eichstätt, Germany) KW - Benediktinerinnenkloster St. Walburg zu Eichstätt (Eichstätt, Germany) KW - Benediktinerinnenabtei St. Walburga (Eichstätt, Germany) KW - Kloster St. Walburg (Eichstätt, Germany) KW - Abtei St. Walburg (Eichstätt, Germany) KW - Eichstätt (Germany). UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77904869 AB - 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 never been given serious consideration by art historians, yet they serve as icons of the nuns' religious vocation in all its complexity. Setting the drawings and related imagery-manuscript illumination, prints, textiles, and metalwork-within the context of religious life and reform in late medieval Germany, Hamburger reconstructs the artistic, literary, and institutional traditions that shaped the lives of cloistered women.Hamburger convincingly demonstrates the overwhelming importance of "seeing" in devotional practice, challenging traditional assumptions about the primacy of text over image in monastic piety. His presentation of the "visual culture of the convent" makes a fundamental contribution to the history of medieval art and, more generally, of late medieval monasticism and spirituality. ER -