George Bent

Public Painting and Visual Culture in Early Republican Florence (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Street corners, guild halls, government offices, and confraternity centers contained paintings that made the city of Florence a visual jewel at precisely the time of its emergence as an international cultural leader. This book considers the paintings that were made specifically for consideration by lay viewers, as well as the way they could have been interpreted by audiences who approached them with specific perspectives. Their belief in the power of images, their understanding of the persuasiveness of pictures, and their acceptance of the utterly vital role that art could play as a propagator of civic, corporate, and individual identity made lay viewers keenly aware of the paintings in their midst. Those pictures affirmed the piety of the people for whom they were made in an age of social and political upheaval, as the city experimented with an imperfect form of republicanism that often failed to adhere to its declared aspirations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316811085
• Artikelnr.: 47394062

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.