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#312142 Arte Saggi

Siena and the Virgin: Art and Politics in a Late Medieval City State.

Author
PublisherYale Univ Press.
Date of publ.
Details cm.26x30, pp.252, ill.a colori. legatura editoriale cartonata, sopracoperta figurata a colori.
AbstractCelebrating the Virgin Mary as both an object of religious affection and a focus of civic pride, artists of fourteenth-century Siena established for their city a vibrant tradition that continued into the early decades of the next century. Such celebratory portraits of the Virgin were also common in Siena?s extensive subject territories, the contado. This richly illustrated book explores late medieval Sienese art?how it was created, commissioned, and understood by the citizens of Siena. Examining political, economic, and cultural relations between Siena and the contado, Diana Norman offers a new understanding of Marian art and its political function as an expression of civic ideology.
EAN9780300080063
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EUR 34.90
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