The Art of Hearing
Sermons and Images in the Chapel of Lucrezia della Rovere
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16611142 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carolyn Valone (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 753-777 |
| Publication date | 2000-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sixteenth Century Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0361-0160 • E-ISSN: 2326-0726 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2671079 |
| OpenAlex | W2521350692 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Counter-Reformation sermons were the major medium for communicating ideas in sixteenth-century Rome, and secular patrons of religious art could draw on this shared language to help fashion their own rhetoric on the walls of their chapels. Sermons often spoke to specific audiences, making use of meaningful exemplars to encourage right living. Lucrezia della Rovere's Marian chapel (1548-52) in the new Minim church of Trinita dei Monti made use of sermons directed primarily to women. Reconstructing what she and the viewers heard is based on the new guides to preaching, famous Marian sermons, and Minim ideals. The patron, using the female exemplars of Mary, Saint Anne, Anna the widow in the Temple, and the mothers of the Massacred Innocents, spoke of the importance of women in family lineage, the glory of motherhood, its sorrows and the need for consolation, and the honor of widows
Art · Art history · Chapel · Linguistics · Historical Influence and Diplomacy · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2025 (25) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |