Visual Cultures of Foundling Care in Renaissance Italy

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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.

subjects: Art and society,  Italy, social conditions,  Foundlings,  Charity in art,  Social conditions,  Infants in art,  Institutional care,  History,  Children in art,  Orphaned Child,  Art,  Hospitals,  Orphanages,  History, 15th Century,  History, 16th Century