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Joanne Allen - Transforming the Church Interior in Renaissance Florence

MAP FORUM - 6 September 2022 Transforming the Church Interior in Renaissance Florence under Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici Dr Allen’s research reconstructs the experience of laity and clergy attending church in Renaissance Florence. These buildings were once internally divided by monumental screens, impressive artistic structures which separated the laity from the clergy, and impacted the viewing conditions on the spectacular Italian painting we know and love, by artists such as Giotto, Botticelli, and Ghirlandaio. In the 1560s-70s, screens were widely destroyed, and choir stalls were relocated to areas behind the high altar. Promoted by Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici, Giorgio Vasari, and others, and expressing Counter-Reformation doctrine, these changes, which fulfilled multiple aesthetic, political, and religious motivations, irreversibly transformed the function, atmosphere and meaning of the church interior. Dr Joanne Allen studied at the Courtauld Institute of Art and the University of Warwick, and completed postdoctoral fellowships in Rome, Florence, and Venice. She teaches at American University in Washington DC, where she won a teaching award, and her research has been supported by the Renaissance Society of America and the Italian Art Society. She is a choral singer and artist.