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choir screens --- Lombard, Peter --- Venice

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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 She presents unpublished documentation and new reconstructions of screens and the choir precincts which they delimited.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.

Screens (Church decoration) --- Counter-Reformation. --- Florence --- History --- Church history --- Church renewal --- Reformation --- Anti-Reformation --- Church decoration and ornament --- Church furniture --- Altar screens --- Choir-screens --- Jubes --- Rood-lofts

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Religious architecture --- Christian religion --- Art --- Iconostases --- Screens (Church decoration) --- Jubés --- Congresses. --- Congrès --- -Screens (Church decoration) --- -264-031 --- Altar screens --- Choir-screens --- Jubes --- Rood-lofts --- Church decoration and ornament --- Church furniture --- Heilige plaatsen: kerken; tempels; bidplaatsen --- 264-031 Heilige plaatsen: kerken; tempels; bidplaatsen --- Jubés --- Congrès --- 264-031 --- Iconostases - Congresses --- Screens (Church decoration) - Congresses --- Cancel --- Choeur

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"In the Catharijneconvent Museum in Utrecht there hangs a panel painting whose diminutive size belies the magnificence of its contents (Plate I). Supporting a soaring canopy of rib vaults, two rows of polished marble columns mark the outer boundaries of the picture; their lower halves are concealed, however, by luminous winged altarpieces - most opened to display their gilt interiors, one decorated with paintings, and one still closed. But the sumptuousness of these material accoutrements carries little weight to the twenty-two tonsured men who fill the central space. With hands tucked into their gleaming white robes and mouths gently open as if in song, they gaze in quiet admiration at the Virgin Mary, dazzling with her loose golden locks and glittering crown, her gown of brocaded gold and purple velvet mantle, and the luminous infant she proffers to St. Dominic, the foremost friar. Whereas the phalanx of men forms a symmetrical buffer around the maiden and baby on the church's central axis, the scene is not wholly static. Following the steep orthogonals created jointly by architecture and figures, we discover the beginnings of movement as the two men farthest from our standpoint, thus deepest in the pictorial space, prepare to enter the choir"--

Screens (Church decoration) --- Space (Architecture) --- Sculpture, Gothic --- Christian art and symbolism --- Jubés --- Espace (Architecture) --- Sculpture gothique --- Art et symbolisme chrétiens --- Social aspects --- History --- Themes, motives. --- Themes, motives --- Aspect social --- Histoire --- Thèmes, motifs --- Jubés --- Art et symbolisme chrétiens --- Thèmes, motifs --- Religious architecture --- anno 1300-1399 --- anno 1200-1299 --- France --- Germany --- Gothic sculpture --- Sculpture, Medieval --- Architecture and space --- Negative space (Architecture) --- Space and architectural mass --- Space in architecture --- Architecture --- City planning --- Altar screens --- Choir-screens --- Jubes --- Rood-lofts --- Church decoration and ornament --- Church furniture --- Composition, proportion, etc. --- Arts and Humanities