Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 12094
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Rusconi , Roberto.
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  • Title: Women's Sermons at the End of the Middle Ages: Texts from the Blessed and Images of the Saints [analysis of preaching and gender in art; material discussed includes contemporary scenes of outdoor preaching by bishops and priests, female saints like Saint Catherine and Mary Madgalene, and holy women such as Saint Catherine of Siena and Saint Rose of Viterbo].
  • Source: Women Preachers and Prophets Through Two Millennia of Christianity.  Edited by Beverly Mayne Kienzle and Pamela J. Walker.  University of California Press, 1998.  Pages 173 - 195.
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  • Article Type: Essay
  • Subject (See Also): Preaching in Art Women in Religion
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  • Geographic Area: Italy
  • Century: 15
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  • Illustrations: Fourteen figures. Figure One Fra Angelico, "The Young Nicholas Listening to a Bishop Preaching" (Rome, Vatican Museums). Figure Two Master of San Giovanni of Capestrano, "Giovanni of Capestrano in a Pulpit Outside the Cathedral of L'Aquila" (L'Aquila, Museo del Castello). Figure Three Sano di Pietro, "Bernardino's Sermon in the Piazza del Campo in Siena" (Siena, Museo del Duomo). Figure Four Frontispiece to Girolamo Savonarola da Ferrara's "Compendio di revelatione" showing Savonarola preaching to a crowd. Figure Five Masolino da Panicale "Saint Catherine of Alexandria Disputing with the Philosophers" (Rome, S. Clemente, Chapel Brancacci). Figure Six Masolino da Panicale," Saint Catherine of Alexandria Refusing to Worship the Idols" (Rome, S. Clemente, Chapel Brancacci). Figure Seven Pinturicchio (Bernardino di Betto) "Saint Catherine of Alexandria Disputing Before the Emperor" (Rome, Vatican Palaces, Appartamento Borgia, Sala dei Santi). Figure Eight Master of the Magdalene, "Mary Magdalene Altarpiece" (Florence, Academy). Includes a scene in which she is preaching to a crowd. Figure Nine Master of the Magdalene Legend, "Mary Magdalene Preaching in a Wood" (Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art). Figure Ten "Saint Martha Preaching." Ligurian school, late fifteenth century. (Briga Marittima, church of San Martino). Figure Eleven Benozzo Gozzoli, "After the Vision of a Crucifix, Saint Rose of Viterbo Preaches to the Gathered People." Drawing of a destroyed fresco (Viterbo, Museo Civico). Figure Twelve Pietro Lorenzetti, "The Illiterate Umiltà of Faenza Reads in the Refectory" (Florence, Uffizi). Figure Thirteen Pietro Lorenzetti, "Umiltà of Faenza Dictates Her Sermos Inspired by the Holy Spirit" (Florence, Uffizi). Figure Fourteen Giovanni di Paolo, "Saint Catherine of Siena "Preaching" Before the Pope" (Madrid, Fundación Colección Thyssen- Bornemisza).
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  • Year of Publication: 1998.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 0520209214