Providing a fresh evaluation of Alberti's text On Painting (1435), along with comparisons to
various works of Nicholas Cusanus-particularly his Vision of God (1450)-this study reveals a …

The magnificence with which the Florentine Renaissance is synonymous derived its power
from a virtue elucidated and disseminated by influential preachers as early as the 1420s …

In the cities of the late medieval Low Countries, the Brothers of the Common Life organised
their collationes (singular collatio). On Sundays and feast days they invited students and …

The altarpiece is one of the most essential means of the self-representation and self-
definition of any religious order. The Carmelites, who arrived in Western Europe after the …

The Sistine magnificent Chapel in frescoes Rome assail that adorn the modern the walls
viewer and with ceilings a virtuoso of the Sistine Chapel in Rome assail the modern viewer …

Three frescoes within the Brancacci Chapel prominently feature disabled figures either on
the ground or standing with crutches: Healing of the Crippled Man and Raising of Tabitha …

* Le immagini presenti nell'articolo sono tratte dalla Digitale Samm-lungen della Universitäts-
und Landesbibliothek di Darmstadt, consultabile online (http://www. ulb. tu-darmstadt …

Health, infirmity, and healing were intertwined in the theological and devotional language–
textual, visual and oral–of fifteenth-century Florence. In the Brancacci Chapel of the Church …

This thesis is a religio-cultural history of the Florentine residencies of Popes Martin V (1417-
31) and Eugenius IV (1431-1447). Between 1419 and 1443, a period of some twenty-five …