S. Maria Del Pianto: Loss, Remembrance And Legacy In Seventeenth Century Naples

This thesis explores the creation of the church of S. Maria del Pianto and its altarpieces commissioned in the wake of the Neapolitan plague of 1656. The church and its sacred images are representative of the devotional shift that occurred in Naples after such catastrophic loss of life – in particul...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ehlert, Rebecca Lisabeth
Other Authors: Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.). Theses (Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.))
Format: Others
Language:en
en
Published: 2007
Subjects:
Art
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1974/903