Art, Knowledge, and Papal Politics in Medieval Rome - Interpreting the Aula Gotica Fresco Cycle At Santi Quattro Coronati

"This volume offers a thorough investigation of the fresco cycle-which include allegorical representations of the liberal arts, the virtues and vices, the seasons, the signs of the zodiac, and the months of the year-in relation to the papacy's growing interest in fields of worldly knowledge such as music, time, astrology, and medicine"--

List of contents

Introduction; 1. The Santi Quattro Coronati frescoes in context; 2. Art, learning and reflective viewing: the liberal arts at Santi Quattro Coronati; 3. Emblems of time and political power: the labors of the months at Santi Quattro Coronati; 4. Allegory, history and political eschatology: the virtues and vices at Santi Quattro Coronati; 5. Visual and material entanglement in the Anagni crypt; Conclusion; Appendix; Bibliography.

About the author

Marius B. Hauknes is assistant professor of medieval art at the University of Notre Dame. He has held the Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro Membership at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princton and an Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the  National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.

Product details

• Authors: Marius B. Hauknes, Marius B. (University of Notre Dame Hauknes
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2025
• EAN: 9781009535762
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0953576-2
• No. of pages: 373
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; European History, Rome, HISTORY / Europe / Italy, ART / European, Italy, Medieval History, History of Art, History of art: Byzantine & Medieval art c 500 CE to c 1400, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Renaissance art, Renaissance style, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, European history: Renaissance, HISTORY / Europe / Renaissance, Medieval style, 13th century, c 1200 to c 1299, ART / History / European / Renaissance, ART / History / European / Medieval