Category: Devotion

  • _Invisible_City_The_Architecture of_Devotion in_Seventeenth-Century_Neapolitan_Convents

    _Invisible_City_The_Architecture of_Devotion in_Seventeenth-Century_Neapolitan_Convents

    [ebook_store ebook_id=”5618″] More than any other European city, Baroque Naples was dominated by convents. Behind their imposing facades and highly decorated churches, the convents of Naples housed the daughters of the city’s most exclusive families, women who, despite their cloistered existence, were formidable players in the city’s power structure. Invisible City vividly portrays the religious world of…

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