Italian Art Society
Cloisters: Urban Politics and the Monastic Ideal
Friday, February 16, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Sutton Parlor Center, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Kathleen G. Arthur, James Madison University; Amber A. McAlister, University of Pittsburgh, Greensburg
The Dead Come to Town: Episcopal Burial Cloisters in the Medieval Italian City
Caroline A. Bruzelius, Duke University
Cloister, Control, and Community: Art and Observance at the Florentine Badia (1419–39)
Anne Leader, City University of New York
The Cloister of the Abbey of Monte Oliveto Maggiore (Siena) and its Frescoes
Kurt Sundstrom, Currier Museum of Art