Title & Author:

Italian altarpieces, 1250-1550 : function and design / edited by Eve Borsook and Fiorella Superbi Gioffredi.

Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.

Description:

viii, 296 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-287) and index.
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.

Summary:

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.

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Publisher description

ISBN:

0198172230 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
9780198172239 (cloth ; acid-free paper)

Subject:

Catholic Church In art.
Catholic Church
Altarpieces, Italian.
Christianity and art Catholic Church.
Painting, Gothic Italy.
Painting, Medieval Italy.
Painting, Renaissance Italy.
Art patronage Italy.
Retables italiens.
Peinture gothique Italie.
Peinture médiévale Italie.
Peinture de la Renaissance Italie.
Mécénat Italie.
Christianisme et art Église catholique.
Art patronage
Painting, Gothic
Painting, Medieval
Painting, Renaissance
Malerei
Altarblatt
Altaarstukken.
Christianity and art Catholic Church Italy.
Art patronage Italy History.
Retables Italie Congrès.
Peinture gothique Italie Congrès.
Peinture de la Renaissance Italie Congrès.
Église catholique et art Congrès.
Mécénat Italie Congrès.
Peinture sur panneau Italie.
Retables de la Renaissance Italie.
Italy
Italien
Altarpieces

Form/genre:

Art

Added entries:

Borsook, Eve.
Gioffredi Superbi, Fiorella.
Os, H. W. van.
Gardner, Julian.
Cannon, Joanna, 1951-
Freuler, Gaudenz.
Seidel, Max.
Humfrey, Peter, 1947-
Nova, Alessandro, 1954-
Rubin, Patricia Lee, 1951-
Muraro, Michelangelo.
Villa I Tatti (Florence, Italy)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 121231
Call No.: ID ND1432.I8 I82; ID:95-B2247
Status: Available