Mary of Mercy in Medieval and Renaissance Italian Art: Devotional Image and Civic Emblem. Katherine T. Brown. Abingdon: Routledge, 2017. xx + 212 pp. $150.

2021 ◽  
Vol 74 (4) ◽  
pp. 1277-1278
Author(s):  
Timothy B. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Italian Art

Flagellant Confraternities and Italian Art, 1260-1610

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew H. Chen
Keyword(s):  
Italian Art

Flagellant Confraternities and Italian Art, 1260-1610

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Chen
Keyword(s):  
Illuminated Manuscripts ◽  
Wall Paintings ◽  
New Findings ◽  
Italian Art ◽  
Visual Prompts

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 Passion and the model suffering body. This study presents new findings related to a variety of artworks including altarpieces, banners, wall paintings, illuminated manuscripts, and paintings for the condemned, many from outside the Florence-Rome-Venice triangle.

P–511 Characteristics of psychological services for couples undergoing ART treatment in Italy

2021 ◽  
Vol 36 (Supplement_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
A Renzi ◽  
R Spoletini ◽  
M D Trani ◽  
G Scaravelli
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Intervention ◽  
Psychological Services ◽  
Health Study ◽  
National Study ◽  
Psychological Interventions ◽  
Medical Procedure ◽  
Psychological Service ◽  
Shared Information ◽  
Registration Number ◽  
Italian Art

Abstract Study question What are the characteristics of the psychological services for couples undergoing ART treatment in Italy? Summary answer In the 47% of ART clinics the psychologist is a stable member of the team whereas psychological services are used by 10–20% of couples. What is known already: ART treatments are complex and emotionally demanding for both men and women. During the procedure the couples often experience stress and several negative emotions. In Italy the Law 40/2004 establishes the guidelines for ART application. This law sustains the importance of offering psychological support to the people who undergo ART treatments at any stage of the medical procedure. However, in Italy there are no specific recommendations or protocols for psychological interventions in ART centres. Furthermore, there is little or no studies regarding the characteristics of the psychological services offered to those undergoing ART treatments. Study design, size, duration This observational study aims to explore the characteristics of psychological services in ART clinics. Therefore, the ART Italian National Register (National Health Institute) with the Department of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology and Health study (Sapienza University) proposed a national survay to the 306 Italian ART centres. The Medical Director of each centre was invited to participate by e-mail and to fill a questionnaire on an on-line platform. Data collection was between Jenuary to February 2020. Participants/materials, setting, methods The participation has been proposed to all the Italian ART centres (n = 306). 35 centres have been previously excluded because participating in the first phase of the study regarding the questionnaire construction. Around the 40% of the centres participated in the study (n = 113). The questionnaire contains 26 items with multiple response answers. It mainly explored: the presence of the psychologist in the ART centres, charachteristics of the intervention offered, percentage of couples using the psychological service. Main results and the role of chance In the 47% of ART centres the psychologist is a stable member of the team. The 38% of respondents reported that the psychologist works on call in the centre, the 18% reported that the psychologist is present in the centre 1–2 times a week whereas the 32% reported that the psychologist works in a private practice outside the centre. The reported percentages of couples using the psychological service are: 10–20% (69%), 20–30% (13%), 30–50% (5%), more than 50% (5%) and around the 100% (8%). The number of psychological sessions usually offered are: up to five (9%), four (13%), three (29%), two (27%), one (10%). Couples interventions represent the 73%, single patient intervention the 14%, whereas the 13% are group interventions. The 60% of respondent reported the absence of a protocol for psychological intervention in the ART centre whereas the 40% reported the presence of a protocol. In around the 50% of cases the psychological service represents an extra cost for the couple/individual. In the 60% of cases the psychologist is not involved in the team meeting, however the 87% of respondents reported that confronting with the psychologist on patients is percived as useful. Limitations, reasons for caution These results should be considered with cautions due to the rate of participation (around 40%). Furthermore, this is a national study and the charachteristics of psychological services offered in ART centres of different countries should be investigated. Wider implications of the findings: In conclusion, the results show that psychological services in Italian ART centers are not yet fully operational and integrated in the ART procedure. All of this highlights the importance of further investigations with the aim to shared information to use to establish common protocols for psychological interventions in ART centres. Trial registration number Not applicable

French Women, Italian Art, and Other “Advocates of the Body” in Harriet Beecher Stowe's The Minister's Wooing

2010 ◽  
Vol 83 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorothy Z. Baker
Keyword(s):  
Female Body ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Religious Paintings ◽  
Italian Art

Displays of sanctified eroticism in The Minister's Wooing reveal Harriet Beecher Stowe's conviction that the body is inherently holy. The author's experience of religious paintings and her observation of French women in Europe deepened her belief that the female body is an instrument of spirituality, as can be traced in the novel.

Colour Blindness in Italian Art High School Students

2002 ◽  
Vol 95 (3) ◽  
pp. 830-834 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Grassivaro Gallo ◽  
S. Oliva ◽  
P. B. Lantieri ◽  
F. Viviani
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
School Achievement ◽  
School Students ◽  
Art Students ◽  
Colour Blindness ◽  
Italian Art ◽  
High School Art ◽  
Defective Vision

To highlight the link between colour blindness and school achievement, the Ishihara and Farnsworth tests were administered to 3,565 high school art students (2,545 girls and 1,020 boys). Analysis showed colour defective students were discriminated against in theoretical subject matter, relative to orthochromate students, but not in the art-related subjects. This emphasizes the need to recognize youth with colour defective vision early.

Sidney's Verse Adaptations to Two Sixteenth-Century Italian Art Songs

1970 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 237-255 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank J . Fabry
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Art Song ◽  
Art Songs ◽  
Sir Philip Sidney ◽  
National Anthem ◽  
Italian Art ◽  
Sister Arts

It is well known that Sir Philip Sidney modeled eight of his thirty-two 'Certaine Sonnets’ upon existing ‘tunes,’ as he called them. To date, only one, relatively unimportant, musical model is known—the current Dutch National Anthem, to which Sidney wrote CS 23, ‘Who hath his fancy pleased.’ The result of this association of the sister arts is a simple, metrically precise, stylistically dull lyric whose numbers are directly proportioned to the regularity of its musical model. Of his other models, one, ‘The Smokes of Melancholy,’ appears to have been an English consort song; the others (five Italian, one Spanish) are probably variant forms of the villanella, a type of sixteenth-century art-song written for three or four voices and distinguished by its rhythmic lightness, its homophonic (chordal) structure, and its mildly satirical or openly vulgar text.

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