Brenna McWhorter presents her paper “Piety and Reform: The Visual Transmission of Savonarolan Doctrine in the Cinquecento” at the 5th annual Undergraduate Art History Symposium on April 17, 2021. The annual Symposium event is hosted by the Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art in collaboration with Missouri Western State University in St. Joseph, Missouri. McWhorter is an M.A. student and Florence Fellow in the Florence Graduate Program in Italian Renaissance Art at Syracuse University and a 2020 graduate of Colorado State University.
Abstract: The focus of this essay is to illustrate the important role that visual artists play in the dispersion of religious doctrine during the early modern period. Through iconographic interpretation of works by Botticelli, Fra Bartolommeo, and Raphael this research establishes that Savonarola’s ideologies were tempered and made more accessible through artistic interpretation. Artists who were affected by the sermons of Fra Girolamo Savonarola were also entrenched in the humanistic tradition of Florentine art, and so visually moderated Savonarola’s homilies to soften the transmission of his controversial doctrines and make the ideology promoted by Savonarolism more palatable to a general audience.
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18 апр 2021
