Felicity Ratté

Picturing the City in Medieval Italian Painting

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Buildings and their surrounding spaces influence the collective identity of an urban population. In turn, images of buildings in paintings and other artwork can reveal much about the character of a city. This richly illustrated text focuses primarily on Rome, Assisi, Siena and Florence from circa 1250 to circa 1390. It addresses four key issues in the study of change in architectural imagery and urban identity: 13th century Roman painting and its importance for 14th century painting in Tuscany; the Tuscan-Byzantine relationship from the mid- to late 13th century; ""naturalistic"" representation of medieval painting; and the meaning behind some of the stylistic changes that coincided with the bubonic plague in the 14th century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland and Company, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Oktober 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 474g
• ISBN-13: 9780786424283
• ISBN-10: 0786424281
• Artikelnr.: 21372454

Autorenporträt

Felicity Ratte is a professor of art and architectural history at Emerson College in Boston. She teaches from the ancient to the renaissance periods, mostly focusing on the cultures of Europe and the Middle East. Her work currently focuses on the medieval and early modern built environment and its representation.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments     
List of Illustrations     
Introduction     
1. Rome Rebuilt: Architectural Imagery and the Revival of Medieval Rome
     
"Reconstructing" Medieval Rome and Its Art     
The Sancta Sanctorum and the Image of Rome     
Thirteenth-Century Restoration of St. Paul's and the Pilgrim
Experience     
The Portico at St. Peter's     
The Artistic Environment in Rome and Beyond at the End of the Thirteenth
Century     
Stylistic Diversity in Thirteenth-Century Rome     
2. Byzantium Bypassed: Architectural Images and the Rejection of the
Maniera Greca c. 1300     
The Arena and the Kariye Compared     
Italian and Byzantine Artistic Currents and Interchange     
Inventing the "Maniera Greca" Relations between Byzantium and Italy,
Artistic and Otherwise     
3. Picturing Places: Trecento Painting and the Emergence of the
"Architectural Portrait"     
The Pilgrim Experience at Assisi     
Memory Techniques and the Architectural Portraits     
Assisi, Rome and Pilgrimage in the Late Thirteenth Century     
Changes in Portraiture Form in the Fourteenth Century     
Conclusion     
4. The Celebrated City: Civic Ritual and the Language of Architectural
Imagery, 1300 to 1340     
Images of Architecture and Real Buildings     
Continued Presence of Conventional Ways of Representing Architecture     
Ritual Life in Early Trecento Florence and Siena     
The Symbolic Role of Architecture in Ritual Life     
5. Crisis and Convention: Change in Architectural Imagery in the Second
Half of the Fourteenth Century     
Changes in Images of Architecture     
Civic Experience in the Second Half of the Century     
Conclusion     
Chapter Notes     
Bibliography     
Index