Visual Cultures of Foundling Care in Renaissance Italy
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Visual Cultures of Foundling Care in Renaissance Italy is a art and society, italy, social conditions book by Diana Bullen Presciutti.
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"The first book to consider the visual culture of foundling hospitals in Renaissance Italy, this study looks beyond the textual evidence to demonstrate that the institutional identities of foundling hospitals were articulated by means of a wide variety of visual forms, including book illumination, altarpieces, fresco cycles, institutional insignia, processional standards, prints, and reliquaries."--Provided by publisher.
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