Portable panel paintings at the Angevin Court of Naples : mobility and materiality in the Trecento Mediterranean / by Sarah K. Kozlowski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kozlowski, Sarah K., author.

Contributor:

Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

Series:

Trecento forum ; v. 4.

Trecento forum ; IV

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Panel painting--Italy--Naples.

Panel painting.

Art, Medieval--Italy--Naples.

Art, Medieval.

Panel painting, Italian--14th century.

Panel painting, Italian.

Physical Description:

292 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm.

Place of Publication:

Turnhout : Brepols, [2022]

Summary:

"Sarah K. Kozlowski's new study of panel painting in fourteenth-century Naples explores the materialities and mobilities of the medium at and beyond the Angevin court, and reframes trecento art in the broader context of artistic circulation, exchange, and transformation across the late medieval and early Renaissance world. This book explores the mobilities and materialities of panel painting at and beyond the Angevin court of Naples in the context of objects, materials, patrons, and painters on the move through the fourteenth-century world. It asks how panel paintings participated in and thematized patterns of circulation and exchange; how they extended the artistic and political geography of the court far beyond Naples itself; how their materialities intersected with other mediums from woven silk to precious metalwork to stone; and how painters' formal and technical experimentation combined with painted panels' real and imagined itineraries to create meaning. The volume traces a series of painted panels through networks of patronage, production, gift giving, transport, and replication. It locates the making, movement, and meaning of these works in the overlapping contexts of Angevin dynastic and territorial ambitions, including the family's stakes in the Holy Land; patterns of collecting and adapting authoritative icons; practices of royal female patronage; and painters' engagement with the limits of the medium of panel painting itself. Each chapter weaves together sustained analysis of paintings' pictorial and material structures, close reading of primary sources, and questions of art's materialities and mobilities. Moving between single objects and larger patterns, between the local and the global, this study presents new research on individual works even as it reframes trecento art in the broader context of artistic circulation, exchange, and transformation across the late medieval and early Renaissance world."-- Publisher website

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Panel Painting in and beyond Fourteenth-Century Naples: Mobility and Materiality

A 1326 inventory of the possessions of Mary of Hungary, queen of Naples

Geographies of Angevin Naples

Panel painting's mobilities

Art at and beyond the Angevin court

Panel painting's materialities

This book

ch. 2 Mobility and Materiality in Simone Martini's Saint Louis of Toulouse Crowning Robert of Anjou

Relics and reliquaries of a new saint between Marseilles and Naples

Diagramming an Angevin world: French, Sienese, and Neapolitan goldwork, an Anatolian carpet, Persian velvet, and Tartar silks

Textiles: fronts and backs

The panel incised, stamped, carved, and modeled

`Simone of Siena painted me'

From the monumental to the mobile

ch. 3 Icons in Angevin Naples between Past and Present, the Monumental and the Mobile

The mosaic of Santa Maria del Principio between past and present

On wood

A painted panel roundel at Santa Restituta between the monumental and the mobile

Collecting and adapting icons in Angevin Naples

ch. 4 Artists, Patrons, and Objects on the Move: Diptychs for the Angevin Court

To open and close, hold and carry

Diptychs at and beyond the Angevin court: material and textual evidence

Diptychs across late medieval courts: Rome, Palermo, Avignon, Karlstejn, Budapest, London

Modes of use and patterns of mobility

Eastern Mediterranean models and the diptych across mediums

ch. 5 Paint, Stone, Flesh: Portable Multipart Panel Paintings with Porphyry Exteriors

A portable polyptych for Sancia of Majorca

Materialities of porphyry and its imitation in paint

The Brno Polyptych and portable multipart panel paintings with porphyry exteriors

Imperial ambitions, eastern Mediterranean models, and the Angevins in the Holy Land

Paint, stone, flesh: panel painting's multiple materialities

ch. 6 Portable Panel Paintings, Royal Women as Patrons, and Court Art beyond the Court

Panel paintings commissioned, collected, and given as gifts

Sancia of Majorca's panel paintings for the convent of the Nativity in Aix

Elizabeth of Poland's dynastic icon between the courts of Naples and Hungary

Johanna of Naples and Bridget of Sweden's vision of the Nativity: place, multiplication, and mobility

ch. 7 Materiality, Mobility, and Revelation in the Stuttgart Apocalypse Panels

An open question

Court context, theological stakes, narrative structure, and technical experimentation

A proposal for the Stuttgart panels' function and configuration

Outside and inside: containers with folding lids

Stone, enamel, revelation

Open and closed, and the worlds of the picture.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-281) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

ISBN:

9782503596952

2503596959

OCLC:

1314893742

Publisher Number:

99992070483