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Renaissance Siena : art in context / edited by A. Lawrence Jenkens.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Sixteenth century essays & studies ; Volume 71.
- Sixteenth century essays & studies ; Volume 71
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art, Italian--Italy--Siena--15th century.
- Art, Italian.
- Art, Italian--Italy--Siena--16th century.
- Art, Renaissance--Italy--Siena.
- Art, Renaissance.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 208 p. : ill.
- Place of Publication:
- Kirksville, Missouri : Truman State University Press, [2005]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The art of Renaissance Siena is usually viewed in the light of developments and accomplishments achieved elsewhere, but Sienese artists were part of a dynamic dialogue that was shaped by their city's internal political turmoil, diplomatic relationships with its neighbors, internal social hierarchies, and struggle for self-definition. These essays lead scholars in a new and exciting direction in the study of the art of Renaissance Siena, exploring the cultural dynamics of the city and its art in a specifically Sienese context. This volume shapes a new understanding of Sienese culture in the early modern period and defines the questions scholars will continue to ask for years to come. What emerges is a picture of Renaissance Siena as a city focused on meeting the challenges of the time while formulating changes to shape its future. Central to these changes are the city's efforts to fashion a civic identity through the visual arts.
- Contents:
- Renaissance Siena, the state of research / A. Lawrence Jenkens
- Reality and ideality in Sienese Renaissance cityscapes / Judith Steinhoff
- Palace façades in late medieval and Renaissance Siena : continuity and change in the aspect of the city / Matthias Quast
- The rebuilding of Siena's Church of Santo Spirito in the late fifteenth century / Mauro Mussolin
- Narrative in context : the Cassoni of Francesco di Giorgio / Benjamin David
- Ambrogio Spannocchi's "Bella casa" : creating site and setting in Quattrocento Sienese architecture / Fabrizio J.D. Nevola
- A fifteenth-century Sienese fabula : the dynastic and patriotic significance of the Piccolomini Library / Stratton D. Green
- The rise of Saint Catherine of Siena as an intercessor for the Sienese / Susan E. Wegner.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [195]-200) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-935503-68-5
- OCLC:
- 694146961
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