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Research paper thumbnail of The Cult of the Madonna of Loreto in Early Modern Venice and the Cecchini Altar at Santa Maria dei Servi

La chiesa di Santa Maria dei Servi e la comunità veneziana dei Servi di Maria (secoli XIV-XIX), 2023

Table of Contents and first page. Distribution gratis is forbidden by the publisher.

Research paper thumbnail of Venetian Devotion to the Sanctuary of Loreto and the 'Contarini Ex-Voto'

Studi veneziani LXXXII, 2020

Reduced 1st page/last page of Studi veneziani publication (LXXXII, 2020). If you wish a Pdf copy,... more Reduced 1st page/last page of Studi veneziani publication (LXXXII, 2020). If you wish a Pdf copy, please contact me off-site.

Research paper thumbnail of Venetian Devotion to the Sanctuary of Loreto and the 'Contarini ex-voto'

Studi veneziani LXXXII, 2020

Manuscript version of article published in Studi veneziani LXXXIII (2020)

Research paper thumbnail of "Una Galleria Compiuta di Pitture Veneziane": The Church of S. Maria Maggiore in Venice"

Studi veneziane, 2004

The Franciscan Observant convent of S. Maria Maggiore in Venice was suppressed and closed in the ... more The Franciscan Observant convent of S. Maria Maggiore in Venice was suppressed and closed in the course of the Napoleonic Supressions after the fall of the Venetian republic in 1797. This article examines the social history of the nuns and their convent, the art and architectural patronage of the church, and attempts a reconstruction of its interior in the first third of the 17th century.

Research paper thumbnail of Tradition and Propaganda in the Venetian Madonna della Pace

In 1503 a large icon of the Hodegetria belonging to the Dominican friars of SS. Giovanni e Paolo,... more In 1503 a large icon of the Hodegetria belonging to the Dominican friars of SS. Giovanni e Paolo, Venice, was transferred from the chapter house of the monastery to its own chapel adjacent to the cloister. The image was promoted as the icon before which St John of Damascus recovered his amputated hand, as a mediator in family disputes, and as an object of veneration by both Venetian Catholics and the Greek Orthodox community in that city. A series of polyglot pamphlets recording the history of the icon and its function as mediatrix par excellence further promoted the icon in the 17 th century, reinforcing the link the icon provided between Counter Reformation Catholics and Greek Orthodox immigrants in early modern Venice. Over the last one hundred and fifty years historians of both art and culture have addressed the presence of miraculous images in the city of Venice in a peculiarly univocal manner. Scholarly publications have limited their scope to the role of popular imagery in the secular sphere; the authenticity of the great palladium of the State-the Nicopeia; the presence of Greek icons in the Venetian Marian cult; and the development of Renaissance architecture associated with the most famous of the indigenous Venetian images. Only a very few studies, such as Edward Muir's article on the Venetian capitelli, expound the view of the miraculous images residing in Venice and its environs as part of an open system of efficacious objects that assisted the people of the city in their civic, religious, and spiritual self-identification. 1 The large Byzantine panel of the Hodegetria now resting on the altar in the chapel of San Giacinto at the Do-minican monastic church of SS. Giovanni e Paolo in Venice is a prime exemplar of the narrow focus scholars have directed towards images of sanctity in the Serenissima (fig. 1). Its own chapel was destroyed when the Venetian civic hospital was built in the 19 th century, nearly all the art adorning the space has been lost, and the archives of its religious confraternity contain significant lacunae. Scholars have found little of interest in the story of the icon beyond its sad history in the years after Napoleon's wholesale suppression of religious organizations in the city. 2 Yet the position the image occupied in early modern Venice as mediatrix par excellence both at the personal level and within the complicated religious structure of the city warrants a closer examination, for its function in early modern Venice was unique. Unfortunately the fate of virtually all the miraculous images in Venice has been harsh. During the initial period of French occupation immediately after the fall of the Venetian Republic in 1797, soldiers looted a large number of churches and monasteries of their precious objects and works of art. The great wave of destruction came in the period between 1806 and 1815, when the French reoccupied Venice and suppressed over a third of its 187 churches. Of the eighty-six churches that were closed, seventy were torn down between 1806 and 1860, and though some material survives from these lost churches the contextual relationship between the images and the sacred space they occupied has been irrevocably lost. UDK:

Research paper thumbnail of Art History Today (Kendall Hunt, 2015)

The Table of Contents, Forwards to the student and instructor and Introduction to a new art appre... more The Table of Contents, Forwards to the student and instructor and Introduction to a new art appreciation textbook using progressive pedagogy and learning strategies for the post millennial learner. Designed for use in GenEd, On-line, Community College, and High School Art Appreciation courses, the book is in a spiral-bound portfolio format that coordinates with the university's on-line course management system. No images are included, allowing freedom for instructors to choose their own works of art to discuss. Group activities, assignments, room for class notes and daily journals are included. The price is 60% lower than a standard art appreciation textbook - 50forspiralboundsoftcover,and50 for spiral bound soft cover, and 50forspiralboundsoftcover,and35 for the e-book.

Research paper thumbnail of Patriarch Giovanni Tiepolo and the Search for Venetian Religious Identity in the Waning of the Renaissance

Celebrazione e autocritica. La serenissima e la ricerca dell'identita veneziana nel tardo Cinquecento. (Venetiana: Centro tedesco di studi veneziani 14), Jan 2014

Celebration and self-criticism, the themes of this conference, have broad implications for the so... more Celebration and self-criticism, the themes of this conference, have broad implications for the social, cultural, and art history of the transitional years between the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries. This is particularly true in the field of religious history and the study of the Venetian Church, for radical shifts in the ideology and practice of Catholicism took place in the city between the close of the Council of Trent in 1563 and the 1631 plague. Although the drive to replace Venetian religious ideology and praxis with the norms of the Roman Catholic Church was inexorable, for a brief period in the early Seicento the people of the Serenissima reacted strongly to attempts to deprive the Republic's religious identity of its historically Venetian flavor. This reactionary trend was fueled by a number of factors, including the actions of its own Counter-Reformation upper clergy and the fluctuating political rapport between Venice and the Holy See. How the Venetians accepted or refused these changes was heavily influenced by a number of crucial events, and the preaching and publications of a few reactionary clerics who compelled the city to re-examine, defend and celebrate its religious identity.

Research paper thumbnail of The Cult of the Nicopeia in the 17th Century

Reflections on Reniassance Venice: A Celebration of Patricia Fortini Brown , Feb 15, 2013

Research paper thumbnail of Review of James G. Harper, ed., The Turk and Islam in the Western Eye, 1450–1750: Visual Imagery before Orientalism

CAA Reviews, Oct 19, 2012

Research paper thumbnail of Review of Pamela M. Jones, Altarpieces and their Viewers in the Churches of Rome from Caravaggio to Guido Reni.

Research paper thumbnail of "The Pastoral Writings and Sacred Art Patronage of Patriarch Giovanni Tiepolo (1619-1631). A Preliminary Investigation," Studi veneziani, LXII-LXIV (Dec. 2011), 193-224

a Preliminary invesTigaTion* helen deborah Walberg T he career of the patrician cleric giovanni T... more a Preliminary invesTigaTion* helen deborah Walberg T he career of the patrician cleric giovanni Tiepolo has retained a low profile among scholars of venetian culture and history. only two notable studiosi, gaetano cozzi and antonio niero, have studied and published aspects of the life and the political and ecclesiastical career of Tiepolo, who was a lifelong exponent of venetian nationalism in the religious sphere. a third, oliver logan, examined several of Tiepolo's publications within the larger context of counter reformation pastoral writings and theology. 1 To date, cozzi's desire for a thorough investigation of the life of this prolific cleric has remained unrealized. 2 This is unfortunate, for Tiepolo's career, his publications, and his art and architectural patronage are intimately related to one of the more fascinating periods in venice's early modern history -the three decades after the Papal interdict of 1605-1607. * i am grateful to dr. matteo casini for his support and observations during the writing of this article. The archival research was funded in part by two generous grants from the gladys Krieble delmas foundation. The following abbreviations will be used : asv : archivio di stato di venezia ; bnm : Biblioteca nazionale marciana ; bmc : Biblioteca del museo correr. 1 g. cozzi, Giuspatronato del doge e prerogative del primicerio sulla capella ducale di San Marco (secoli xvi-xviii) : Controversie con i Procuratori di San Marco de supra e i patriarchi di Venezia, « atti dell'istituto veneto di science lettere ed arti », cli, 1992-1993, pp. 1-69 ; idem, Note su Giovanni Tiepolo, Primicerio di S. Marco e Patriarca di Venezia : L'unità ideale della chiesa veneziana, in Chiesa società e stato a Venezia. Miscellanea di studi in onore di Silvio Tramontin, a cura di B. Bertolli, venezia, 1994, pp. 121-150 ; idem, Il giuspatronato del doge su San Marco : diritto originario o concessione pontificia ?, in San Marco : aspetti storici e agiografici, atti del convegno internazionale di studi, venezia 26-29 aprile 1994, a cura di a. niero, venezia, 1996, pp. 727-742 ; a. niero, Tiepolo, Jean, in Dictionnaire de spiritualité ascétique et mystique. Paris, 1991, vol. xv, cols. 935-946 ; idem, Il corpus tiepolesco dei santi e beati veneziani in l. moretti, a. niero, P. rossi, La Chiesa del Tintoretto. Madonna dell'

Research paper thumbnail of Review of Maria H. Loh . Titian Remade: Repetition and the Transformation of Early Modern Italian Art .

Renaissance Quarterly, Jan 1, 2009

Research paper thumbnail of The Marian Miracle Paintings of Alessandro Varotari (Il Padovanino, 1588--1649): Popular Piety and Painted Proselytizing In Seventeenth-Century Venice

UMI, ProQuest ® Dissertations & Theses. The world's most comprehensive collectio... more UMI, ProQuest ® Dissertations & Theses. The world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses. Learn more... ProQuest, The Marian miracle paintings of Alessandro Varotari (Il Padovanino, 1588--1649): Popular ...

Research paper thumbnail of The Cult of the Madonna of Loreto in Early Modern Venice and the Cecchini Altar at Santa Maria dei Servi

La chiesa di Santa Maria dei Servi e la comunità veneziana dei Servi di Maria (secoli XIV-XIX), 2023

Table of Contents and first page. Distribution gratis is forbidden by the publisher.

Research paper thumbnail of Venetian Devotion to the Sanctuary of Loreto and the 'Contarini Ex-Voto'

Studi veneziani LXXXII, 2020

Reduced 1st page/last page of Studi veneziani publication (LXXXII, 2020). If you wish a Pdf copy,... more Reduced 1st page/last page of Studi veneziani publication (LXXXII, 2020). If you wish a Pdf copy, please contact me off-site.

Research paper thumbnail of Venetian Devotion to the Sanctuary of Loreto and the 'Contarini ex-voto'

Studi veneziani LXXXII, 2020

Manuscript version of article published in Studi veneziani LXXXIII (2020)

Research paper thumbnail of "Una Galleria Compiuta di Pitture Veneziane": The Church of S. Maria Maggiore in Venice"

Studi veneziane, 2004

The Franciscan Observant convent of S. Maria Maggiore in Venice was suppressed and closed in the ... more The Franciscan Observant convent of S. Maria Maggiore in Venice was suppressed and closed in the course of the Napoleonic Supressions after the fall of the Venetian republic in 1797. This article examines the social history of the nuns and their convent, the art and architectural patronage of the church, and attempts a reconstruction of its interior in the first third of the 17th century.

Research paper thumbnail of Tradition and Propaganda in the Venetian Madonna della Pace

In 1503 a large icon of the Hodegetria belonging to the Dominican friars of SS. Giovanni e Paolo,... more In 1503 a large icon of the Hodegetria belonging to the Dominican friars of SS. Giovanni e Paolo, Venice, was transferred from the chapter house of the monastery to its own chapel adjacent to the cloister. The image was promoted as the icon before which St John of Damascus recovered his amputated hand, as a mediator in family disputes, and as an object of veneration by both Venetian Catholics and the Greek Orthodox community in that city. A series of polyglot pamphlets recording the history of the icon and its function as mediatrix par excellence further promoted the icon in the 17 th century, reinforcing the link the icon provided between Counter Reformation Catholics and Greek Orthodox immigrants in early modern Venice. Over the last one hundred and fifty years historians of both art and culture have addressed the presence of miraculous images in the city of Venice in a peculiarly univocal manner. Scholarly publications have limited their scope to the role of popular imagery in the secular sphere; the authenticity of the great palladium of the State-the Nicopeia; the presence of Greek icons in the Venetian Marian cult; and the development of Renaissance architecture associated with the most famous of the indigenous Venetian images. Only a very few studies, such as Edward Muir's article on the Venetian capitelli, expound the view of the miraculous images residing in Venice and its environs as part of an open system of efficacious objects that assisted the people of the city in their civic, religious, and spiritual self-identification. 1 The large Byzantine panel of the Hodegetria now resting on the altar in the chapel of San Giacinto at the Do-minican monastic church of SS. Giovanni e Paolo in Venice is a prime exemplar of the narrow focus scholars have directed towards images of sanctity in the Serenissima (fig. 1). Its own chapel was destroyed when the Venetian civic hospital was built in the 19 th century, nearly all the art adorning the space has been lost, and the archives of its religious confraternity contain significant lacunae. Scholars have found little of interest in the story of the icon beyond its sad history in the years after Napoleon's wholesale suppression of religious organizations in the city. 2 Yet the position the image occupied in early modern Venice as mediatrix par excellence both at the personal level and within the complicated religious structure of the city warrants a closer examination, for its function in early modern Venice was unique. Unfortunately the fate of virtually all the miraculous images in Venice has been harsh. During the initial period of French occupation immediately after the fall of the Venetian Republic in 1797, soldiers looted a large number of churches and monasteries of their precious objects and works of art. The great wave of destruction came in the period between 1806 and 1815, when the French reoccupied Venice and suppressed over a third of its 187 churches. Of the eighty-six churches that were closed, seventy were torn down between 1806 and 1860, and though some material survives from these lost churches the contextual relationship between the images and the sacred space they occupied has been irrevocably lost. UDK:

Research paper thumbnail of Art History Today (Kendall Hunt, 2015)

The Table of Contents, Forwards to the student and instructor and Introduction to a new art appre... more The Table of Contents, Forwards to the student and instructor and Introduction to a new art appreciation textbook using progressive pedagogy and learning strategies for the post millennial learner. Designed for use in GenEd, On-line, Community College, and High School Art Appreciation courses, the book is in a spiral-bound portfolio format that coordinates with the university's on-line course management system. No images are included, allowing freedom for instructors to choose their own works of art to discuss. Group activities, assignments, room for class notes and daily journals are included. The price is 60% lower than a standard art appreciation textbook - 50forspiralboundsoftcover,and50 for spiral bound soft cover, and 50forspiralboundsoftcover,and35 for the e-book.

Research paper thumbnail of Patriarch Giovanni Tiepolo and the Search for Venetian Religious Identity in the Waning of the Renaissance

Celebrazione e autocritica. La serenissima e la ricerca dell'identita veneziana nel tardo Cinquecento. (Venetiana: Centro tedesco di studi veneziani 14), Jan 2014

Celebration and self-criticism, the themes of this conference, have broad implications for the so... more Celebration and self-criticism, the themes of this conference, have broad implications for the social, cultural, and art history of the transitional years between the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries. This is particularly true in the field of religious history and the study of the Venetian Church, for radical shifts in the ideology and practice of Catholicism took place in the city between the close of the Council of Trent in 1563 and the 1631 plague. Although the drive to replace Venetian religious ideology and praxis with the norms of the Roman Catholic Church was inexorable, for a brief period in the early Seicento the people of the Serenissima reacted strongly to attempts to deprive the Republic's religious identity of its historically Venetian flavor. This reactionary trend was fueled by a number of factors, including the actions of its own Counter-Reformation upper clergy and the fluctuating political rapport between Venice and the Holy See. How the Venetians accepted or refused these changes was heavily influenced by a number of crucial events, and the preaching and publications of a few reactionary clerics who compelled the city to re-examine, defend and celebrate its religious identity.

Research paper thumbnail of The Cult of the Nicopeia in the 17th Century

Reflections on Reniassance Venice: A Celebration of Patricia Fortini Brown , Feb 15, 2013

Research paper thumbnail of Review of James G. Harper, ed., The Turk and Islam in the Western Eye, 1450–1750: Visual Imagery before Orientalism

CAA Reviews, Oct 19, 2012

Research paper thumbnail of Review of Pamela M. Jones, Altarpieces and their Viewers in the Churches of Rome from Caravaggio to Guido Reni.

Research paper thumbnail of "The Pastoral Writings and Sacred Art Patronage of Patriarch Giovanni Tiepolo (1619-1631). A Preliminary Investigation," Studi veneziani, LXII-LXIV (Dec. 2011), 193-224

a Preliminary invesTigaTion* helen deborah Walberg T he career of the patrician cleric giovanni T... more a Preliminary invesTigaTion* helen deborah Walberg T he career of the patrician cleric giovanni Tiepolo has retained a low profile among scholars of venetian culture and history. only two notable studiosi, gaetano cozzi and antonio niero, have studied and published aspects of the life and the political and ecclesiastical career of Tiepolo, who was a lifelong exponent of venetian nationalism in the religious sphere. a third, oliver logan, examined several of Tiepolo's publications within the larger context of counter reformation pastoral writings and theology. 1 To date, cozzi's desire for a thorough investigation of the life of this prolific cleric has remained unrealized. 2 This is unfortunate, for Tiepolo's career, his publications, and his art and architectural patronage are intimately related to one of the more fascinating periods in venice's early modern history -the three decades after the Papal interdict of 1605-1607. * i am grateful to dr. matteo casini for his support and observations during the writing of this article. The archival research was funded in part by two generous grants from the gladys Krieble delmas foundation. The following abbreviations will be used : asv : archivio di stato di venezia ; bnm : Biblioteca nazionale marciana ; bmc : Biblioteca del museo correr. 1 g. cozzi, Giuspatronato del doge e prerogative del primicerio sulla capella ducale di San Marco (secoli xvi-xviii) : Controversie con i Procuratori di San Marco de supra e i patriarchi di Venezia, « atti dell'istituto veneto di science lettere ed arti », cli, 1992-1993, pp. 1-69 ; idem, Note su Giovanni Tiepolo, Primicerio di S. Marco e Patriarca di Venezia : L'unità ideale della chiesa veneziana, in Chiesa società e stato a Venezia. Miscellanea di studi in onore di Silvio Tramontin, a cura di B. Bertolli, venezia, 1994, pp. 121-150 ; idem, Il giuspatronato del doge su San Marco : diritto originario o concessione pontificia ?, in San Marco : aspetti storici e agiografici, atti del convegno internazionale di studi, venezia 26-29 aprile 1994, a cura di a. niero, venezia, 1996, pp. 727-742 ; a. niero, Tiepolo, Jean, in Dictionnaire de spiritualité ascétique et mystique. Paris, 1991, vol. xv, cols. 935-946 ; idem, Il corpus tiepolesco dei santi e beati veneziani in l. moretti, a. niero, P. rossi, La Chiesa del Tintoretto. Madonna dell'

Research paper thumbnail of Review of Maria H. Loh . Titian Remade: Repetition and the Transformation of Early Modern Italian Art .

Renaissance Quarterly, Jan 1, 2009

Research paper thumbnail of The Marian Miracle Paintings of Alessandro Varotari (Il Padovanino, 1588--1649): Popular Piety and Painted Proselytizing In Seventeenth-Century Venice

UMI, ProQuest ® Dissertations & Theses. The world's most comprehensive collectio... more UMI, ProQuest ® Dissertations & Theses. The world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses. Learn more... ProQuest, The Marian miracle paintings of Alessandro Varotari (Il Padovanino, 1588--1649): Popular ...