Religious Poverty, Visual Riches

Religious Poverty, Visual Riches
Author: Joanna Cannon
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Architecture and society
ISBN: 9780300187656

The Dominican friars of late-medieval Italy were vowed to a life of religious poverty, yet their churches contained many visual riches. Featuring works by supreme practitioners such as Cimabue, Duccio, Giotto and Simone Martini, this book sets the art of the Dominican churches in a wider context.

Music in the Castle

Music in the Castle
Author: F. Alberto Gallo
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 192
Release: 1995
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780226279688

Writing for general readers and specialists alike, Gallo illuminates the artistic, cultural, social, and political dimensions of secular music, vocal and instrumental. His account also sheds new light on the potent influence of French culture in Italian courtly life.

A Wider Trecento

A Wider Trecento
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2011-12-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004226516

Julian Gardner’s preeminent role in British studies of the art of the 13th and 14th centuries, particularly the interaction of papal and theological issues with its production and on either side of the Alps, is celebrated in these studies by his pupils. They discuss Roman works: a Colonna badge in S. Prassede and a remarkably uniform Trinity fresco fragment, as well as monochrome dado painting up to Giotto, Duccio's representations of proskynesis, a Parisian reliquary in Assisi, Riminese painting for the Franciscans, the tomb of a theologian in Vercelli, Bartolomeo and Jacopino da Reggio, the Room of Love at Sabbionara, the cult of Urban V in Bologna after 1376, Altichiero and the cult of St James in Padua, the orb of the Wilton Diptych, and Julian Gardner’s career itself. The contributors to the volume are Serena Romano, Jill Bain, Claudia Bolgia, Louise Bourdua, Joanna Cannon, Roberto Cobianchi, Anne Dunlop, Jill Farquhar, Robert Gibbs, Virginia Glenn, Dillian Gordon, John Osborne and Martina Schilling.

Renaissance

Renaissance
Author: Andrew Graham-Dixon
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 344
Release: 1999
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780520223752

A history of Renaissance art, placing the time in its historical and political context and arguing that the Renaissance grew out of the achievements of the medieval period.

The Art of the Franciscan Order in Italy

The Art of the Franciscan Order in Italy
Author: Roger Cook
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 422
Release: 2005-08-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9047404629

This volume includes a collection of essays of scholars from several disciplines and focuses on the art produced for the Franciscans in Italy from the 13th to the 15th century. They contain a wide range of subject matter (fresco, panel, stained glass window) and a variety of approaches.

Pen and Parchment

Pen and Parchment
Author: Melanie Holcomb
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2009
Genre: Drawing, Medieval
ISBN: 1588393186

Discusses the techniques, uses, and aesthetics of medieval drawings; and reproduces work from more than fifty manuscripts produced between the ninth and early fourteenth century.