Religious poverty, visual riches: art in the Dominican churches of central Italy in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries

Contents

The Salve Regina Procession and the Screen -- The Crocifixo Grande -- "Whose Image Is This?" The Virgin and the Ecclesia Laicorum -- Dominican Sancti and Beati in the Ecclesia Laicorum -- The Friars within the Choir Enclosure -- Choir Books before 1300 -- The Polyptych on the High Altar after 1300 -- The Adoration of the Cross: Men, Women and the Choir Enclosure -- Cloister and Chapter House: Images of the Order, for the Order -- Dominicans and the Personal Possession of Paintings -- Lay Burials and the Architectural Spaces of S. Caterina, Pisa -- Altar, Chapel and Altar-chapel -- Creating Images for Altars: Friars and Laypeople Working Together -- Wall Paintings in the Ecclesia Laicorum: Order or Disorder? -- Sharing the Walls and Windows of the Cappella Maggiore -- S. Maria Novella: A Case Apart?