Invisible City —— The Architecture of Devotion in Seventeenth-Century Neapolitan Convents

----- 看不见的城市:17世纪那不勒斯修道院的建筑

ISBN: 9780195117745 出版年：2004 页码：281 Hills, Helen Oxford University Press

Invisible City vividly portrays the religious world of seventeenth-century Naples, a city of familial and internecine rivalries, of religious devotion and intense urban politics, of towering structures built to house the virgin daughters of the aristocracy. Helen Hills demonstrates how the architecture of the convents and the nuns' bodies they housed existed both in parallel and in opposition to one another. She discusses these women as subjects of enclosure, as religious women, and as art patrons, but also as powerful agents whose influence extended beyond the convent walls.