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Giotto and His Publics : Three Paradigms of Patronage.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Bernard Berenson Lectures on the Italian Renaissance SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (273 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674060975
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Giotto and His PublicsDDC classification:
  • 759.5
LOC classification:
  • ND623
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Giotto at Pisa: The Stigmatization for San Francesco -- Chapter 2. Giotto among the Money-Changers: The Bardi Chapel in Santa Croce -- Chapter 3. The Lull before the Storm: The Vele in the Lower Church at Assisi -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Inscriptions of the Vele -- Chronology -- Notes -- Index.
Summary: This probing analysis of three of Giotto's major works and the patrons who commissioned them goes beyond the clichés of Giotto as the founding figure of Western painting. It traces the interactions between Franciscan friars and powerful bankers and illuminates the complex interactions between mercantile wealth and the iconography of poverty.
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Giotto at Pisa: The Stigmatization for San Francesco -- Chapter 2. Giotto among the Money-Changers: The Bardi Chapel in Santa Croce -- Chapter 3. The Lull before the Storm: The Vele in the Lower Church at Assisi -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Inscriptions of the Vele -- Chronology -- Notes -- Index.

This probing analysis of three of Giotto's major works and the patrons who commissioned them goes beyond the clichés of Giotto as the founding figure of Western painting. It traces the interactions between Franciscan friars and powerful bankers and illuminates the complex interactions between mercantile wealth and the iconography of poverty.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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