1st Edition
Art, Politics and Civic Religion in Central Italy, 1261–1352 Essays by Postgraduate Students at the Courtauld Institute of Art
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This was first published in 2000: Introduced by Joanna Cannon, this volume of essays by postgraduate students at the Courtauld Institute, University of London, explores some of the ways in which art was used to express, to celebrate, and to promote the political and religious aims and aspirations of those in power in the city states of central Italy in the thirteenth and fourteenth... Read more
Contents: Introduction; Secular power and the sacred in the art of the central-Italian city-state, Joanna Cannon; The decoration of the west wall of the Sala del Mappamondo in Siena’s Palazzo Pubblico, Thomas de Wesselow; Reconstructing the programme of the tomb of Guido Tarlati, Bishop and Lord of Arezzo, Georgina Pelham; The reliquary of the Holy Corporal in the cathedral of Orvieto: patronage and politics, Giovanni Freni; San Ranieri of Pisa: a civic cult and its expression in text and image, Lily Richards; Coppo di Marcovaldo’s Madonna del Bordone: political statement or profession of faith? Gianna A. Mina; Civitas Virginis? The significance of civic dedication to the Virgin for the development of Marian imagery in Siena before 1311, Bridget Heal; Index.
Biography
Joanna Cannon is a lecturer at the Courtauld Institute of Art and author, with André Vauchez, of Margherita of Cortona and the Lorenzetti. Sienese Art and the Cult of a Holy Woman in Medieval Tuscany, University Park 1998. Beth Williamson is a lecturer in the History of Art at the University of Bristol.
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