| FT-54236-06 | Research Programs: Summer Stipends | Saundra Weddle | Convent Architecture in Renaissance Florence | 2/1/2007 - 4/30/2007 | $5,000.00 | Saundra | | Weddle | | | | Drury University | Springfield | MO | 65802-3712 | USA | 2006 | Architecture | Summer Stipends | Research Programs | 5000 | 0 | 5000 | 0 |
My project examines Florentine Renaissance convent architecture as the setting of a range of private and public activities that expressed Florentine attitudes toward these communities and the women who inhabited them. I will examine the documentation and surviving built fabric of convent complexes, and primary sources that describe how convent spaces functioned. I will focus on the communities of Sant'Ambrogio, Santa Caterina di San Gaggio, Le Murate, and San Pier Maggiore, where public rituals intersected with convent architecture. The result will be a monograph that considers how Florentine contexts informed convents' form and function between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries. |