George R Bent

Public Painting and Visual Culture in Early Republican Florence

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book reconstructs and interprets the decorative appearance of one of the world's greatest cities at the dawn of its golden age. For scholarly and general audiences, it focuses on the needs and interests of common people as a way of thinking about art within the broader context of history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 264mm x 188mm x 71mm
• Gewicht: 1242g
• ISBN-13: 9781107139763
• ISBN-10: 1107139767
• Artikelnr.: 45153362

Autorenporträt

George R. Bent is the Sydney Gause Childress Professor of the Arts at Washington and Lee University, Virginia, where he has taught in the Department of Art and Art History since 1993. A Fulbright scholar, Bent has written about the art of Lorenzo Monaco, Florentine art of the Late Middle Ages and Early Renaissance, and manuscript production in the fourteenth century.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: public painting for common people in early republican
Florence, 1282-1434; 1. Paintings in the streets: tabernacles, public
devotion, and control; 2. Images of charity: confraternities, hospitals,
and pictures for the destitute; 3. Art and the commune: politics,
propaganda, and the bureaucratic state; 4. Pictures for merchants: the
guilds, their paintings, and the struggle for power; 5. Public painting in
sacred spaces: piers and pilasters in Florentine churches; 6. Murals for
the masses: paintings on nave walls; 7. Masaccio's Trinity and the triumph
of public painting for common people in early republican Florence.