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Nicola Pisano's Arca Di San Domenico and Its Legacy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 172

Nicola Pisano's Arca Di San Domenico and Its Legacy

Moskowitz begins with a brief discussion of the history and concerns of the Dominican Order, particularly during the decades spanning the death of Dominic and the initiation of the Arca project.

Art as Politics in Late Medieval and Renaissance Siena
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 249

Art as Politics in Late Medieval and Renaissance Siena

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-07-05
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  • Publisher: Routledge

In Art as Politics in Late Medieval and Renaissance Siena, contributors explore the evolving relationship between image and politics in Siena from the time of the city-state's defeat of Florence at the Battle of Montaperti in 1260 to the end of the Sienese Republic in 1550. Engaging issues of the politicization of art in Sienese painting, sculpture, architecture, and urban design, the volume challenges the still-prevalent myth of Siena's cultural and artistic conservatism after the mid fourteenth century. Clearly establishing uniquely Sienese artistic agendas and vocabulary, these essays broaden our understanding of the intersection of art, politics, and religion in Siena by revisiting its medieval origins and exploring its continuing role in the Renaissance.

Tendencies of Gothic in Florence
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 304

Tendencies of Gothic in Florence

  • Categories: Art

A companion volume to Andrea Bonaiuti, this text offers detailed information on the work of Don Silvestro dei Gherarducci, a celebrated Italian book illustrator of the late-14th century, and the impact of his gothicizing tendencies on the Giottesque tradition.

Late Medieval Italian Art and Its Contexts
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 413

Late Medieval Italian Art and Its Contexts

Joanna Cannon's scholarship and teaching have helped shape the historical study of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Italian art; this essay collection by her former students is a tribute to her work.

The Humanist World of Renaissance Florence
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 313

The Humanist World of Renaissance Florence

The Humanist World of Renaissance Florence offers the first synthetic interpretation of the humanist movement in Renaissance Florence in more than fifty years.

A Companion to Catherine of Siena
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 413

A Companion to Catherine of Siena

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-11-25
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  • Publisher: BRILL

This volume, written by experts on Catherine of Siena, considers her as a church reformer, peacemaker, preacher, author, holy woman, stigmatic, saint and politically astute person. The manuscript tradition of works by and about her are also studied.

Painting and Illumination in Early Renaissance Florence, 1300-1450
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 406

Painting and Illumination in Early Renaissance Florence, 1300-1450

. By way of introduction to the objects themselves are three essays. The first, by Laurence B. Kanter, presents an overview of Florentine illumination between 1300 and 1450 and thumbnail sketches of the artists featured in this volume. The second essay, by Barbara Drake Boehm, focuses on the types of books illuminators helped to create. As most of them were liturgical, her contribution limns for the modern reader the medieval religious ceremonies in which the manuscripts were utilized. Carl Brandon Strehlke here publishes important new material about Fra Angelico's early years and patrons - the result of the author's recent archival research in Florence.

Publications of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1964-2005
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 172

Publications of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1964-2005

The present volume, Publications of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1964-2005, is a successor to a volume published by the Museum in 1965 entitled Publications of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1870-1964. These two bibliographic volumes endeavor to list all the known books, pamphlets, and serial publications bearing the Museum's imprint, and issued by the institution during the first 135 years of its existence (through June 2005). The first volume was compiled by Albert TenEyck Gardner, at the time an Associate Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture, and the present volume has been compiled from the Annual Reports issued by the Museum during the relevant years. Together the two volumes...

Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Albasitensis
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 737

Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Albasitensis

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-05-25
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Every third year, the members of the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies (IANLS) assemble for a week-long conference. Over the years, this event has evolved into the largest single conference in the field of Neo-Latin studies. The papers presented at these conferences offer, then, a general overview of the current status of Neo-Latin research; its current trends, popular topics, and methodologies. In 2018, the members of IANLS gathered for a conference in Albacete (Spain) on the theme of “Humanity and Nature: Arts and Sciences in Neo-Latin Literature”. This volume presents the conference’s papers which were submitted after the event and which have undergone a peer-review process. The papers deal with a broad range of fields, including literature, history, philology, and religious studies.

Reliquary Tabernacles in Fourteenth-century Italy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 265

Reliquary Tabernacles in Fourteenth-century Italy

  • Categories: Art

Ground-breaking study of the enigmatic and unique tabernacles from fourteenth-century Italy, which for the first time combined relics and images.Images and relics were central tools in the process of devotional practice in medieval Europe. The reliquary tabernacles that emerged in the 1340s, in the area of Central Italy surrounding the city of Siena, combined images and relics, presented visibly together, within painted and decorated wooden frames. In these tabernacles the various media and materials worked together to create a powerful and captivating ensemble, usable in several contexts, both in procession and static, as the centre of focussed, prayerful attention. This book looks at Siena...