List of Illustrations Introduction: The Fifteenth-Century Altarpiece Decoration of the Santo Spirito Choir part 1: The Influence of the Friars 1 Saint Augustine, the Augustinian Hermits, and the Convent of Santo Spirito 1 Saint Augustine: the Ascent to Wisdom and the Journey of Love 2 The Order of the Augustinian Hermits 3 Augustinian Art 4 The Convent of Santo Spirito2 The Santo Spirito Choir and the Presence of the Friars 1 Building the New Church 2 Encountering the Architecture 3 Furnishing the Church 4 Creating Augustinian Space 5 The Choir as Marian Space 6 The Choir Chapels: Itineraries of Augustinian Influence3 The Santo Spirito Format: Fashioning Sacred Space 1 The Santo Spirito Format: Spatial Continuity and Figural Presence 2 Shared Space 3 Heaven and the Choir 4 The Santo Spirito Format, Simplicity, and Devotional Viewing 5 Ornament and the Perfected Space part 2: Art and Meditation in the Santo Spirito Choir 4 Discursive Meditation and Botticelli's Bardi Altarpiece 1 Meditation and the Choir Altarpieces 2 The Bardi Altarpiece5 Hope and the Virtues: Piero di Cosimo's The Visitation with Saints Nicholas of Bari and Anthony Abbot 1 The Commission and the Painting 2 Saints Nicholas of Bari and Anthony Abbot 3 The Landscape 4 The Inscription 5 The Reconciliation of the Virtues 6 The Reconciliation of the Testaments and the Covenant of Grace6 Caritas and Family: Filippino Lippi's Nerli Altarpiece 1 The Patron and the Painting 2 The Geography of the Nerli Altarpiece: Separate and Conjoined Spaces 3 Painting Charity 4 Augustinian Charity: the Judgment of Love 5 Marriage and Charity 6 Charity and the Nerli Marriage7 Faith and the Mirror of God: Agnolo del Mazziere's The Holy Trinity with Saints Mary Magdalen and Catherine of Alexandria 1 The Altarpiece 2 The Trinity as Throne of Grace 3 The Saints in Contemplation 4 Saint Augustine and the Trinity 5 The Throne of Grace as the Visionary 6 The Landscape: "The Things That Are Made" 7 Contemplation and the Visio Dei Conclusion: The Santo Spirito Altarpiece Bibliography Index.