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, 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.

'… This is an excellent, wonderfully researched, and deeply interesting book. I look forward to its publication, and am sure that it will be widely read, frequently cited, and have a major impact in the field.' Caroline Bruzelius, Duke University

• Introduction; 1. Accessing the Italian church interior; 2. Transforming churches in fifteenth-century Florence; 3. Transforming churches in sixteenth-century Florence; 4. Community and access in the Mendicant church: Santa Maria del Carmine; 5. Patronage and place in monastic churches: Santa Trinita and San Pancrazio; 6. Gender and Ceremony in The Nuns' church: San Pier Maggiore; 7. Behavior and reform in the civic oratory: Orsanmichele; 8. Duke Cosimo I de' Medici, religious reform, and the Florentine church interior.

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, 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.

'… This is an excellent, wonderfully researched, and deeply interesting book. I look forward to its publication, and am sure that it will be widely read, frequently cited, and have a major impact in the field.' Caroline Bruzelius, Duke University

• Introduction; 1. Accessing the Italian church interior; 2. Transforming churches in fifteenth-century Florence; 3. Transforming churches in sixteenth-century Florence; 4. Community and access in the Mendicant church: Santa Maria del Carmine; 5. Patronage and place in monastic churches: Santa Trinita and San Pancrazio; 6. Gender and Ceremony in The Nuns' church: San Pier Maggiore; 7. Behavior and reform in the civic oratory: Orsanmichele; 8. Duke Cosimo I de' Medici, religious reform, and the Florentine church interior.

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, 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.

'… This is an excellent, wonderfully researched, and deeply interesting book. I look forward to its publication, and am sure that it will be widely read, frequently cited, and have a major impact in the field.' Caroline Bruzelius, Duke University

• Introduction; 1. Accessing the Italian church interior; 2. Transforming churches in fifteenth-century Florence; 3. Transforming churches in sixteenth-century Florence; 4. Community and access in the Mendicant church: Santa Maria del Carmine; 5. Patronage and place in monastic churches: Santa Trinita and San Pancrazio; 6. Gender and Ceremony in The Nuns' church: San Pier Maggiore; 7. Behavior and reform in the civic oratory: Orsanmichele; 8. Duke Cosimo I de' Medici, religious reform, and the Florentine church interior.