confraternity

June 19, 2020
Call for Papers: Contagium: Exploring the Nexus Between Confraternity, Pandemic and Renaissance Society

The Society for Confraternity Studies will sponsor a number of sessions at the 67th Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America (7- 10 April 2021).

August 6, 2019
Call for Papers – Women and Confraternities: The Hidden Voices of Renaissance Piety and Charity

This RSA panel aims to amplify the hidden voices of women who were members of lay confraternities or females who found themselves in the ambit of these charitable associations.

July 16, 2018
Call for Papers, “Beyond the Microcosm: The Impact of Confraternities on the Civic Sphere”

Call for Papers, “Beyond the Microcosm: The Impact of Confraternities on the Civic Sphere”

November 6, 2017
On 6 November 1531 Il Sodoma Received a 10- Ducat Bonus.

October 23, 2017
On 23 October 1461, Florentine painter Benozzo Gozzoli was contracted to paint an altarpiece for the new oratory of the Compagnia di Santa Maria della Purificazione e di San Zanobi, a youth confraternity sponsored by Cosimo de’Medici at San Marco in Florence.

August 14, 2017
Very few secure dates are known of the life of Mauro Codussi, the most important Renaissance architect active in Venice.