Invisible City: The Architecture of Devotion in Seventeenth-Century Neapolitan Convents
by Helen Hills
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This text analyzes conventual architecture in terms of the politics of sight, 'the optics of power' - the relationship between flesh and stone. It uncovers the connections between the bodies of the nuns and the walls that housed them.Tags
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Helen Hills is Senior Lecturer in Art History at the University of Manchester.
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- Religion & Spirituality, Nonfiction, History, Art & Design
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- 271.9004573 — Religion History of Christianity Religious congregations and orders in church history Orders of Women
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- BX4220 .I8 .H55 — Philosophy, Psychology and Religion Christian Denominations Christian Denominations Catholic Church Monasticism. Religious orders Religious orders of women
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