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The power of images : Siena, 1338 / Patrick Boucheron ; translated by Andrew Brown.
Fine Arts Library ND623.L75 B6813 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Boucheron, Patrick, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Conjurer la peur. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Lorenzetti, Ambrogio, 1285-approximately 1348.
- Politics in art.
- Mural painting and decoration, Gothic--Italy--Siena.
- Mural painting and decoration, Gothic.
- Mural painting and decoration, Italian--Italy--Siena--14th century.
- Mural painting and decoration, Italian.
- Lorenzetti, Ambrogio, 1285-approximately 1348--Criticism and interpretation.
- Lorenzetti, Ambrogio.
- Palazzo pubblico (Siena, Italy).
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Siena (Italy)--History--Rule of the Nine, 1287-1355.
- Siena (Italy).
- Italy--Siena.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 204 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, plans ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- In this book, distinguished historian Patrick Boucheron uncovers the rich social and political dimensions of the iconic 'Fresco of Good Government'. He guides the reader through Lorenzetti's divided city, where peaceful prosperity and leisure sit alongside the ever-present threats of violence, war and despotism. Lorenzetti's painting reminds us crucially that good government is not founded on the wisdom of principled or virtuous rulers. Rather, good government lies in the visible and tangible effects it has on the lives of its citizens. By subjecting it to scrutiny, we may, at least for a while, be able to hold at bay the dark seductions of tyranny. From fourteenth-century Siena to the present, The Power of Images shows the latent dangers to democracy when our perceptions of the common good are distorted and undermined.-- Publisher's website.
- Contents:
- 1 'I thought of these images, painted for you' 5
- 2 Nachleben: the watchful shadows 12
- 3 The Nine 20
- 4 Ambrogio Lorenzetti, famosissimo e singularissimo maestro 30
- 5 On each side: allegory, realism, resemblances 38
- 6 Esto visibile parlare: the walls speak to us 49
- 7 Guernica in the lands of Siena 60
- 8 The seductions of tyranny (what the image conceals) 69
- 9 Concord with its cords 80
- 10 With the common good as lord 89
- 11 What Peace sees: narratives of spaces and talking bodies 104
- 12 Well, now you can dance 118.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-192) and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Boucheron, Patrick. Power of images.
- ISBN:
- 9781509512898
- 1509512896
- 9781509512904
- 150951290X
- OCLC:
- 1003132331
- Publisher Number:
- 99977513263
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