Minna Hamrin Picturing Carnal Temptation and Sin in Italian Post-Tridentine Imagery | 2018 and Sin in Italian Post-Tridentine Temptation Minna Hamrin Carnal | Picturing Imagery Images of male saints defending their chastity Minna Hamrin against transgressive women were increasingly produced in post-Tridentine Italy – a period when Catholic dogma, through Church reform, emp- Picturing Carnal Temptation and Sin hasised the superiority of the virginal state and the danger of carnal desire. The images show the in Italian Post-Tridentine Imagery female gender as an immediate danger to the patriarchal order, eager to corrupt innocent, pious men by inducing them to engage in the sin of fornication. In this thesis, temptation scenes from the lives of various male saints are studied. The material consists of paintings, drawings, engravings and sculptures, all produced in Italy during the ‘long seventeenth century’. 9 789517 659130 Åbo Akademi University Press | ISBN 978-951-765-913-0 Minna Hamrin (born1983) - Masters degree in Art history, 2009, Åbo Akademi University Cover image: Giacomo Franco, St Francis’ Exemplary Chastity (detail), 1593. Orig. photo: Istituto Storico Cappuccini, Museo Francescano, Rome Åbo Akademi University Press Tavastgatan 13, FI-20500 Åbo, Finland Tel. +358 (0)2 215 4793 E-mail:
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