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Sienese painting : the art of a city-republic (1278-1477) / Timothy Hyman.
Fine Arts Library ND621.S6 H96 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hyman, Timothy.
- Series:
- World of art
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Painting, Italian--Italy--Siena.
- Painting, Italian.
- Painting, Renaissance.
- Painting, Medieval.
- Italy--Siena.
- Painting, Medieval--Italy--Siena.
- Painting, Renaissance--Italy--Siena.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 224 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Thames & Hudson, 2003.
- Summary:
- For two centuries, the city-republic of Siena was home to a brilliant succession of painters who produced some of the greatest masterpieces of all time. Timothy Hyman's overview is an essential introduction to an extraordinary artistic tradition.
- Contents:
- Introduction: 'An Art Born Amidst City Streets' 7
- The Image of the City 9
- Chapter 1 Duccio and the Religion of the Commune 14
- The Expanded Icon 16
- Pisans and Parisians 24
- The Maesta 26
- Narrative and Predella 31
- 'From Greek, Back into Latin' 38
- Chapter 2 Simone Martini: 'The Sweet New Style' 42
- In the French High Fashion 45
- The Montefiore Chapel and Franciscan Narrative 50
- Simone in Siena 1328-33 57
- The Guidoriccio and Barna Controversies 61
- With Petrarch in Avignon: 'il mio Simon' 66
- Chapter 3 Pietro Lorenzetti: Towards a Franciscan Art 72
- The Passion Cycle at Assisi 74
- 'A Sweetly Passionate Abandonment to Feeling' 79
- New Majesties 83
- Imagery of the Journey: Dante and Blessed Umilta 87
- A New Birth 90
- Chapter 4 Ambrogio Lorenzetti: The Golden Age Returns 94
- In the Service of Ben Comun 100
- The Image of a Just Society 104
- 'The Space of Vernacular Style' 110
- The Winter Wall 114
- The Cosmographer 118
- Chapter 5 After the Black Death (1348-1420) 122
- Bartolo and Taddeo: 'Patent Mediocrities'? 123
- The Fountain and the Font: Jacopo della Quercia 130
- 'Lowliness': Bernardino and the Sienese Saints 132
- Chapter 6 Second Flowering: Sassetta 136
- An Alternative Renaissance 139
- Francis, Jester of God 145
- An Agglomeration of Glimpses 150
- Verticality 156
- Chapter 7 Giovanni di Paolo: The Chessboard Journey 160
- Death and the Dante Illuminations 164
- The John the Baptist Cycles 169
- The Storyteller 175
- Chapter 8 The Lost Cause: From the Master of the Osservanza to Francesco di Giorgio 182
- Asciano and the Shared Idiom 188
- Towards Pienza 193
- Francesco di Giorgio and 'Mathematical Humanism' 198
- Discarding the 'Humble Style' 203
- Epilogue: The Rediscovery 208.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-214) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0500203725
- OCLC:
- 52531321
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