Painting in Florence and Siena after the Black Death : the arts, religion and society in the Mid-Fourteenth century / Millard Meiss.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meiss, Millard.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Painting--Italy--Florence.

Painting.

Italy--Florence.

Painting--Italy--Siena.

Painting, Renaissance--Italy.

Painting, Renaissance.

Italy.

Italy--Siena.

Physical Description:

195 pages, 42 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1951]

Summary:

Here--in a rich interweaving of considerations of connoisseurship style, iconography, cultural and social background, and historical events--is the first extended study of the history of Florentine and Sienese painting in the later fourteenth century, in the period following the plague of the Black Death of 1348.

Contents:

I. The New form and Content 9

Orcagna's Altarpiece 9

The Madonna by Nardo 14

From Narrative to Ritual 16

The Exaltation of God, the Church, and the Priest 27

The Supernatural 39

The Recovery of the Dugento 44

Barna. Conclusion 53

II. The Two Cities at Mid-Century 59

The Economic Crisis 61

Political and Social Change 62

The Black Death 64

Economic and Social Consequences of the Plague 67

The Effect upon Culture and Art 71

III. Guilt, Penance, and Religious Rapture 74

IV. The Spanish Chapel 94

V. Texts and Images 105

VI. The Madonna of Humility 132

Origin and Development 132

The Meaning of the Image 145

VII. Boccaccio 157

III. Some Recent Criticism of Orcagna 172

IV. A New Polyptych by Andrea da Firenze 175.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0691039194

0691003122

OCLC:

17381584