Invisible city: the architecture of devotion in seventeenth century neapolitan convents
Auteur :
Hills, Helen
Éditeur :
Oxford University Press Inc
ISBN :
9780195117745
Date de publication :
12 févr. 2004
Dimensions :
16,0 x 23,4 x 2,8 cm
Poids :
596 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Invisible City analyzes conventual architecture in terms of the politics of sight, "the optics of power", the relationship between flesh and stone. It uncovers the connections between the bodies of the nuns and the walls that housed them, presenting the architecture of female convents as a metaphor for the body of the aristocratic female virgin nun.