Italian Altarpieces, 1250-1550: function and design
Oxford / New York: Oxford University Press / Clarendon Press, 1994. Hardcover. Illustrated dj; red cloth with gilt lettering on spine. viii, 296 pages : illustrations. VG, ex-library. Stamped on text block, front endpaper; pocket in back. Pages have slight toning on edges but does not extend to print area. Item #184450
ISBN: 9780198172239
Since the 1960s, the Italian altarpiece has attracted unprecedented scholarly attention, bringing artistic, liturgical, social and technical considerations to bear on the subject. The eight contributors to this book provide an impressive synopsis of the different approaches developed in order to enlarge and deepen our knowledge of paintings in terms of their historical functions. Patronage, morphology, religious meaning, pictorial composition, reception, and original setting are all discussed. In several cases, new light is shed on paintings that until a few years ago were dealt with only as elements within a history of style. In nearly all the contributions there is an overwhelming concern with reconstruction, and much new material is presented concerning the historical significance of a specific category of painting. . This volume is the result of an international symposium held in June 1988 at the Harvard University for Italian Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti in Florence.
Contents: Introduction / Henk W. van Os -- 1. Altars, Altarpieces, and Art History: Legislation and Usage / Julian Gardner -- 2. The Creation, Meaning, and Audience of the Early Sienese Polyptych: Evidence from the Friars / Joanna Cannon -- 3. Sienese Quattrocento Painting in the Service of Spiritual Propaganda / Gaudenz Freuler -- 4. The Social Status of Patronage and its Impact on Pictorial Language in Fifteenth-Century Siena / Max Seidel -- 5. The Bellini, the Vivarini, and the Beginnings of the Renaissance Altarpiece in Venice / Peter Humfrey -- 6. Hangings, Curtains, and Shutters of Sixteenth-Century Lombard Altarpieces / Alessandro Nova -- 7. Commission and Design in Central Italian Altarpieces c. 1450-1550 / Patricia Rubin -- 8. The Altarpiece in the Bassano Workshop: Patronage, Contracts, and Iconography / Michelangelo Muraro.
OCLC: 28222144
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