Signorelli and Fra Angelico at Orvieto - Liturgy, Poetry and a Vision of the End Time

About the author

Sara Nair James

Summary

Sara Nair James presents the decoration of the cathedral at Orvieto as an integrated whole, a programme complex in iconography, message, source material and theory. The book is a study in the theory and techniques of the visual representation of religious belief and its reception by the laity.

Product details

• Authors: Sara Nair James, James Sara Nair
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.12.2003
• EAN: 9780754608134
• ISBN: 978-0-7546-0813-4
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 174 mm x 246 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 790 g
• Series: Histories of Vision
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; ART / European, ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / Religious, Italy, History of Art, History of art: Byzantine & Medieval art c 500 CE to c 1400, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Painting & paintings, Renaissance art, Religious buildings, Renaissance style, Paintings and painting, Architecture: religious buildings, Medieval style, ART / History / European / Medieval