Wall Painting, Civic Ceremony, and Sacred Space in Early Renaissance - Ital

Focusing on four large mural decorations created by celebrated Florentine artists between 1377 and 1484, this book investigates how mural paintings affirmed civic identities by visualizing ideas, experiences, memory, and history. It offers new insights into the motives and mechanics of patronage and artistic production.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. 'Larger, more ornate, and more seemly': Agnolo Gaddi and the Chapel of the Holy Belt in Prato; 2. 'A Most Devout Place': the Camposanto from cemetery to civic space in fourteenth century Pisa ; 3. 'Most holy and unique in the world': Filippo de' Medici, Benozzo Gozzoli and the completion of the Camposanto in the fifteenth century; 4. Rome in Spoleto: Bishop Berardo Eroli, Fra Filippo Lippi, and the Coronation of the Virgin Murals in the Duomo of Spoleto; Conclusion. 'Marvelous grace of hand'.

About the author

Jean Cadogan is Professor of Fine Arts at Trinity College. A graduate of Wellesley College and Harvard University, she was previously Curator of European Art at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford. Her publications include Wadsworth Atheneum Paintings II:  Italy and Spain, (Hartford 1991); Domenico Ghirlandaio:  Artist and Artisan (London and New Haven 2000), as well as numerous articles on drawings, mural paintings, and artisan families in Renaissance Florence.

Product details

• Authors: Jean K. (Trinity College Cadogan, Cadogan Jean K.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 31.08.2025
• EAN: 9781009535229
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0953522-9
• No. of pages: 460
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; European History, ART / General, Italy, History of Art, History of art & design styles: c 1400 to c 1600, c 1000 CE to c 1500, 15th century, c 1400 to c 1499, Painting & paintings, Western Europe, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, European history: Renaissance, Western Continental Europe, Murals and wall paintings