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Transforming the church interior in Renaissance Florence : screens and choir spaces, from the Middle Ages to Tridentine Reform
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ISBN: 1108985653 1108988202 1108833594 110898343X Year: 2022 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Before the late sixteenth century, the churches of Florence were internally divided by monumental screens that separated the laity in the nave from the clergy in the choir precinct. Enabling both separation and mediation, these screens were impressive artistic structures that controlled social interactions, facilitated liturgical performances, and variably framed or obscured religious ritual and imagery. In the 1560s and 70s, screens were routinely destroyed in a period of religious reforms, irreversibly transforming the function, meaning, and spatial dynamics of the church interior. In this volume, Joanne Allen explores the widespread presence of screens and their role in Florentine social and religious life prior to the Counter-Reformation. She presents unpublished documentation and new reconstructions of screens and the choir precincts which they delimited. Elucidating issues such as gender, patronage, and class, her study makes these vanished structures comprehensible and deepens our understanding of the impact of religious reform on church architecture.

Thresholds of the sacred : architectural, art historical, liturgical, and theological perspectives on religious screens, East and West
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ISBN: 9780884023111 0884023117 Year: 2006 Publisher: Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks research library and collection,


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The art and science of the church screen in medieval Europe : making, meaning, preserving
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ISBN: 9781783271238 Year: 2017 Publisher: Woodbridge The Boydell Press


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The gothic screen : space, sculpture, and community in the cathedrals of France and Germany, ca. 1200-1400
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ISBN: 9781107022959 1107022959 9781139149358 9781139776714 1139776711 1139149350 9781139779753 1139779753 9781139782746 1139782746 1139889001 1139794108 1139783696 1283812479 1139778234 1108430767 9781283812474 Year: 2013 Publisher: Cambridge: Cambridge university press,

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At the heart of Gothic cathedrals, the threshold between nave and sanctuary was marked by the choir screen, a partitioning structure of special complexity, grandeur and beauty. At once a canopy for altars, a stage for performance, a pedestal for crucifixes and reliquaries and a ground for spectacular arrays of narrative and iconic sculptures, the choir screen profoundly shaped the spaces of liturgy and social interaction for the diverse communities, both clerical and lay, who shared the church interior. For the first time, this book draws together the most important examples - some fully extant, others known through fragments and graphic sources - from thirteenth- and fourteenth-century France and Germany. Through analyses of both their architectural and sculptural components, Jacqueline E. Jung reveals how these furnishings, far from being barricades or hindrances, were vital vehicles of communication and shapers of a community centred on Christian rituals and stories.

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