Italian altarpieces 1250-1550 : function and design / edited by Eve Borsook and Fiorella Superbi Gioffredi.

Contributor(s): Borsook, Eve | Gioffredi Superbi, Fiorella .

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BookPublisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1994Description: viii, 296 p : ill. ; 29 cm. + hbk.ISBN: 0198172230.Subject(s): Altarpieces, Italian

| Painting, Gothic -- Italy

| Painting, Renaissance

| Christianity and art -- Catholic Church

| Art patronage -- Italy

DDC classification: 755.20945

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Reference	MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Reference	755.20945 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Reference		00055253

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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Since the 1960s, the Italian altarpiece has attracted unprecedented scholarly attention, bringing liturgical, social, and technical considerations to bear on the subject. The eight contributors to this book provide an impressive synopsis of the different approaches developed in order to enlarge and deepen our knowledge of paintings in terms of their historical functions. In several cases, new light is shed on paintings that until a few years ago, were dealt with only as elements within a history of pictorial style. This volume is the result of an international symposium held in July 1988 at the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti in Florence. Contributors: Henk W. Van Os, Julian Gardner, Joanna Cannon, Gaudenz Freuler, Max Seidel, Peter Humfrey, Alessandro Nova, Patricia Rubin, and Michelangelo Muraro.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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CHOICE Review

Investigation of the function and meaning of altarpieces has proved to be one of the most fruitful areas for the construction of new approaches to Renaissance art. These eight essays, the proceedings of an international symposium held in 1988 at I Tatti, put the emphasis on altarpieces as functioning objects that meet the needs of a specific clientele. The good news here is that, for the scholars represented, the probing of history and the unraveling of style beautifully merge as part of a single investigation. The key period of development of the altarpiece in Italy is covered--from the first stage of conceptualization in the mid-13th century to the bravura phase of invenzione that opens up in the 16th. There is scrupulous attention to a range of geographical centers, but once again the importance of Siena as a center in altarpiece experimentation is made clear. The volume stands as both a summation of work done to date and a charting out of new directions. Upper-division undergraduate; graduate; faculty. D. Pincus; University of British Columbia

Author notes provided by Syndetics

EveBorsookResearch Associate, Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies.