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Tangible Women : = Marble Sculptures of Female Saints in Seventeenth-Century Rome.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Tangible Women :/
Reminder of title:	Marble Sculptures of Female Saints in Seventeenth-Century Rome.
Author:	Patton, Ashley M.
Description:	1 online resource (251 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-01, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International85-01A.
Subject:	Art history. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9798379958770

Tangible Women : = Marble Sculptures of Female Saints in Seventeenth-Century Rome.
Patton, Ashley M.

Tangible Women :Marble Sculptures of Female Saints in Seventeenth-Century Rome. - 1 online resource (251 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-01, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Minnesota, 2023.

Includes bibliographical references

This dissertation investigates how early modern sculptors employed different typologies of white marble sculpture to present an archetypal, yet largely inimitable model of the post-Tridentine, ideal Christian woman. Employing a mix of extensive fieldwork and historical investigations, I present four case studies that are broadly representative of the era's major typologies which have so far gone unremarked upon in the literature: reclining women in ecstasy or death, freestanding statues on altars, and multimedia reliefs. These sculptures include Stefano Maderno's St. Cecilia (1600), Gian Lorenzo Bernini's St. Teresa in Ecstasy (1647-1652), Ercole Ferrata's St. Agnes on the Pyre (1660-1664) and Melchiorre Cafa's St. Catherine of Siena (1662-1667). My research contextualizes the complex and fluctuating status of holy women in seventeenthcentury Rome by investigating these sculptures through a material and gendered lens. This dissertation reveals how marble statues of female saints mobilized specific moments from each woman's biographical narrative to embolden post-Tridentine attitudes towards feminine sanctity, contributing to new and innovative scholarly debates on gender, religion, and sculptural materiality in early modern studies. Ultimately, I argue that marble sculptures of female saints oscillated between embodied purity and material sensuality, creating a paradox of story, purpose, and form for the early modern viewer to unravel.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2024

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798379958770Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Art history.
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