Flagellant Confraternities and Italian Art, 1260-1610 - Andrew Chen - eBook (9789048535453)

This book examines the art and ritual of flagellant confraternities in Italy from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries. Meeting regularly to beat themselves with whips, members of these confraternities concentrated on the suffering of Christ in the most extreme and committed way, and the images around them provided visual prompts of the Pass...