Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby

Biographic Data

ID1444697
NAMENirit Ben-Aryeh Debby
GIVEN NAMESNirit Ben-Aryeh
FAMILY NAMEDebby
SIGNATUREDEBBY N B
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS4
WORKS AS AUTHOR12
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2002
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX1

  • I segni della fine

    Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby, Nirit Ben‐Aryeh DebbyARTICLESpeculum2023

  • Bride, Court Lady, Oriental Princess, Virgin Mary, Jewess

    Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby, Nirit Ben‐Aryeh DebbyARTICLEI Tatti Studies2021

  • Crusade Propaganda in Word and Image in Early Modern Italy

    Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby, Nirit Ben‐Aryeh Debby et al.ARTICLERenaissance and Reformation2017

    Debby, Nirit Ben-Aryeh. Crusade Propaganda in Word and Image in Early Modern Italy: Niccolò Guidalotto’s Panorama of Constantinople (1662). An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Volume 39, Number 3, Summer 2016, pp. 5-221), on Érudit

  • The Preacher's Agenda

    Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby, Nirit Ben‐Aryeh DebbyARTICLEThe European Legacy2015

    This article reviews the cultural agenda of the celebrated Dominican preacher Giovanni Dominici (1356–1419) in fifteenth-century Florence. Central issues discussed include Dominici’s educational programme, his cultural propaganda, his interest in the visual arts and his opposition to the study of the classics, as expressed in his public popular preaching. The close examination of his cultural agenda discloses Dominici as the most extreme opponent…

  • Crusade Propaganda in Word and Image in Early Modern Italy

    Open AccessNirit Ben-Aryeh Debby, Nirit Ben‐Aryeh DebbyARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2014References: 11

    The focus of this article is a vast seventeenth-century panorama of Constantinople, which is an exceptional drawing of the city, currently displayed at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. The panorama is an elaborate piece of anti-Ottoman propaganda designed by the Franciscan friar Niccolò Guidalotto da Mondavio. Guidalotto also prepared a large manuscript, held in the Vatican Library, which details the panorama’s meaning and the motivation behind its cr…

  • Creating Magnificence in Renaissance Florence

    Open AccessNirit Ben-Aryeh Debby, Nirit Ben‐Aryeh DebbyARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2013

    Peter Howard. Creating Magnificence in Renaissance Florence. Essays and Studies 29. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2012. 174 pp. $19. ISBN: 978–0–7727–2126–6. - Volume 66 Issue 1

  • Art and Sermons

    Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby, Nirit Ben‐Aryeh DebbyARTICLEChurch History and Religious…2012

    This paper analyzes perceptions of the Jews by the Dominican friars in latemedieval Florence and focuses on the encounter between the Christian and Jewish worlds as manifested in Santa Maria Novella church in the oral and visual traditions. The intention is to examine the representations of Jews in a particular context, that of an Italian urban society in the late fourteenth century, especially in the context of mendicant activity, by studying bo…

  • Retórica visual

    Open AccessNirit Ben-Aryeh Debby, Nirit Ben‐Aryeh DebbyARTICLEAnuario de Estudios Medievales2012

    Este artículo se centra en el encuentro entre el mundo cristiano y el musulmán tal y como se representa en las iglesias florentinas. Analiza las imágenes de musulmanes relacionadas con los conceptos de misión, conversión y cruzada según su tratamiento en las tradiciones visuales y orales. Existía una larga tradición de simpatía hacia las Cruzadas en la Toscana, sobre todo en Florencia, que se remonta hasta el siglo XII. El papel ejercido por las …

  • St. Clare Expelling the Saracens from Assisi

    Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby, Nirit Ben‐Aryeh DebbyARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2012

    The early modern iconographie representations of St. Clare of Assisi (1193-1253) often show her carrying the monstrance with the Eucharist. This act refers to the episode of September 1240, when the Saracen mercenaries of Emperor Federick II attacked the unprotected small monastery of the Poor Ladies of San Damiano. The weak and sick Clare is often portrayed as lifting up the monstrance while standing at the dormitory door and striking the Sarace…

  • Italian Pulpits

    Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby, Nirit Ben‐Aryeh DebbyCHAPTERCharisma and religious authority2010

    This volume of essays concentrates on the effects of preaching in late medieval and early modern Europe, particularly through the concept of charisma, a term introduced into the discussion of religion and politics by Max Weber. Used by Weber, the term indicates the power of a person to move others to action, to animate and mobilize them. The late medieval and early modern periods witnessed the emergence of preachers who became powerful public fig…

  • Vittoria Colonna and Titian's Pitti "Magdalen"

    Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby, Nirit Ben‐Aryeh DebbyARTICLEWoman s Art Journal2003

  • Political Views in the Preaching of Giovanni Dominici in Renaissance Florence, 1400-1406

    Open AccessNirit Ben-Aryeh Debby, Nirit Ben‐Aryeh DebbyARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2002Cited by: 4References: 1

    The Dominican friar Giovanni Dominici (1356-1419) was an influential, charismatic, and popular preacher, and an important figure in the political world of Renaissance Florence, but neglected in modern scholarship. This study offers a thorough summary of Dominici's political views as well as a biographical portrait, a bibliographical survey, and a discussion of Dominici's preaching style. The article draws on a large, unpublished collection of Dom…