1st Edition
The Sculpture of Reform in North Italy, ca 1095-1130 History and Patronage of Romanesque Fa�es
By Dorothy F. Glass
Copyright 2010
296 Pages
by
Routledge
296 Pages
by
Routledge
Entirely original in its methodology, this study offers a fresh approach to the study of Romanesque façade sculpture. Declining to revisit questions of artistic personalities, artistic style and connoisseurship, Dorothy F. Glass delves instead into the historical and historiographical context for a group of significant monuments erected in Italy between the last decade of the eleventh century and... Read more
Contents: Introduction; Papal politics, Papal culture; The geography of power, the power of geography: Mantua and San Benedetto Po; The Benedictine abbey of Nonantola: reframing history, debating theology; The cathedral at Modena: history and historiography; The reform programme at the cathedral of Modena; Beyond the centre: the cathedrals of Cremona and Piacenza; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Dorothy F. Glass is the author of Studies on Cosmatesque Pavements, Italian Romanesque Sculpture: An Annotated Bibliography, Romanesque Sculpture in Campania: Patrons, Programs and Style, and Portals, Pilgrimage and Crusade in Western Tuscany.
'Professor Glass has succeeded in writing the most important book on Italian Romanesque sculpture in decades. It is a brilliant study. She has done it with a superbly clear and spare style of writing, with effective visual analysis, and with supremely well informed argumentation based on the visual material and relevant textual sources. This is one of the most significant art history studies I have read on Italian medieval art.' Jaroslav Folda, University of North Carolina, USA 'This is an overtly polemical book, buttressed by substantial new evidence and persuasive arguments in support of its overarching hypothesis. It reframes a topic of great importance for European Romanesque, and no one interested in the field can afford to ignore it.' Burlington Magazine '... a nearly exhaustive review [...] providing a firmer basis for the posited link between contemporary events and the works of art... Recommended.' Choice
