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100 1 $aHills, Helen.
245 10 $aInvisible city :$bthe architecture of devotion in seventeenth-century Neapolitan convents /$cHelen Hills.
260 $aOxford ; New York :$bOxford University Press,$c2004.
300 $axii, 268 p., [40] p. of plates :$bill., maps (some col.) ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 183-251) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: Convents and Conventual Life in Early Modern Italy -- 1. Cittadelle sacre and the Politics of Conventual Urbanism -- 2. Virginity and Enclosure -- 3. Dowries and Daughters -- 4. Living Like Ladies: Conventual Patronage -- 5. Convents and Conflict: Conventual Urbanism in Naples -- 6. Conventual Optics of Power -- Conclusion: Conventual Architecture as Metaphor for the Body
520 1 $a"Invisible City vividly portrays the religious world of seventeenth-century Naples, a city of familial and internecine rivalries, of religious devotion and intense urban politics, of towering structures built to house the virgin daughters of the aristocracy. Helen Hills demonstrates how the architecture of the convents and the nuns' bodies they housed existed both in parallel and in opposition to one another. She discusses these women as subjects of enclosure, as religious women, and as art patrons, but also as powerful agents whose influence extended beyond the convent walls. Though often ensconced in convents owing to their families' economic circumstances, many of these young women were able to extend their influence as a result of the role convents played both in urban life and in art patronage. The convents were rich and powerful organizations, riven with feuds and prey to the ambitions of viceregal and elite groups, which their thick walls could not exclude."--BOOK JACKET.
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