Public Painting and Visual Culture in Early Republican Florence

Informationen zum Autor George R. Bent is the Sydney Gause Childress Professor of the Arts at Washington and Lee University, Virginia, where he has taught in the Department of Art and Art History since 1993. A Fulbright scholar, Bent has written about the art of Lorenzo Monaco, Florentine art of the Late Middle Ages and Early Renaissance, and manuscript production in the fourteenth century. Klappentext This book examines the way common people saw and interpreted paintings produced for - and placed in - public settings in fourteenth-century Florence. Zusammenfassung This book reconstructs and interprets the decorative appearance of one of the world's greatest cities at the dawn of its golden age. For scholarly and general audiences! it focuses on the needs and interests of common people as a way of thinking about art within the broader context of history. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: public painting for common people in early republican Florence, 1282-1434; 1. Paintings in the streets: tabernacles, public devotion, and control; 2. Images of charity: confraternities, hospitals, and pictures for the destitute; 3. Art and the commune: politics, propaganda, and the bureaucratic state; 4. Pictures for merchants: the guilds, their paintings, and the struggle for power; 5. Public painting in sacred spaces: piers and pilasters in Florentine churches; 6. Murals for the masses: paintings on nave walls; 7. Masaccio's Trinity and the triumph of public painting for common people in early republican Florence.

Product details

• Authors: George Bent, George (Washington and Lee University Bent, George R Bent
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2016
• EAN: 9781107139763
• ISBN: 978-1-107-13976-3
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; European History, HISTORY / Europe / Italy, ART / European, ART / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, Italy, History of Art, History of art: Byzantine & Medieval art c 500 CE to c 1400, Exhibition catalogues & specific collections, Painting & paintings, Exhibition catalogues and specific collections, Paintings and painting, Medieval style, ART / History / European / Medieval