The first monograph on the Vita Humana cycle at Tre Fontane, this book includes an overview of the medieval history of the Roman Cistercian abbey and its architecture, as well as a consideration of the political and cultural standing of the abbey both within Papal Rome and within the Cistercian order. It considers the commission of the fresco cycle, the circumstances of its making and its position within the art historical context of the Roman Duecento. Examining the unusual blend of images in the Vita Humana cycle, this study offers a more nuanced picture of the iconographic repertoire of medieval art.…mehr
The first monograph on the Vita Humana cycle at Tre Fontane, this book includes an overview of the medieval history of the Roman Cistercian abbey and its architecture, as well as a consideration of the political and cultural standing of the abbey both within Papal Rome and within the Cistercian order. It considers the commission of the fresco cycle, the circumstances of its making and its position within the art historical context of the Roman Duecento. Examining the unusual blend of images in the Vita Humana cycle, this study offers a more nuanced picture of the iconographic repertoire of medieval art.
Kristin B. Aavitsland is an art historian and medievalist, engaged as a Fellow in the Faculty of Theology, University of Oslo, Norway.
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Contents: Preface Introduction: the Vita Humana cycle at the abbey of Tre Fontana Part I Contexts: The settings of the Vita Humana cycle Learning, piety and the rhetoric of images. Part II Analyses: Paradise lost The man in the tree of life The eagles The fisherman The wheel of senses and the ages of man The harvest of fruit in the garden of life Birds and cages The Vita Humana cycle: a visual florilegium? Concluding remarks Bibliography Index.
Contents: Preface Introduction: the Vita Humana cycle at the abbey of Tre Fontana Part I Contexts: The settings of the Vita Humana cycle Learning, piety and the rhetoric of images. Part II Analyses: Paradise lost The man in the tree of life The eagles The fisherman The wheel of senses and the ages of man The harvest of fruit in the garden of life Birds and cages The Vita Humana cycle: a visual florilegium? Concluding remarks Bibliography Index.
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