Research Catalog

Title

Public painting and visual culture in early republican Florence / George R. Bent, Washington and Lee University.

Author

Bent, George R.

Publication

• New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
• ©2016

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Details

Description

xv, 334 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map; 27 cm

Summary

"Street corners, guild halls, government offices, and confraternity centers contained paintings that made the city of Florence a visual jewel at precisely the time of its emergence as an international cultural leader. This book considers the paintings that were made specifically for consideration by lay viewers, as well as the way they could have been interpreted by audiences who approached them with specific perspectives. Their belief in the power of images, their understanding of the persuasiveness of pictures, and their acceptance of the utterly vital role that art could play as a propagator of civic, corporate, and individual identity made lay viewers keenly aware of the paintings in their midst. Those pictures affirmed the piety of the people for whom they were made in an age of social and political upheaval, as the city experimented with an imperfect form of republicanism that often failed to adhere to its declared aspirations"--

Subject

• To 1500
• Painting, Italian > Italy > Florence > Themes, motives
• Public art > Italy > Florence > History > To 1500
• Art and society > Italy > Florence > History > To 1500
• HISTORY / Europe / General
• Art and society
• Civilization
• Painting, Italian > Themes, motives
• Public art
• Florence (Italy) > Civilization
• Italy > Florence

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-323) and index.

Contents

Introduction: public painting and visual culture in early republican Florence, 1282-1434 -- Paintings in the streets: tabernacles, public devotion, and control -- Images of charity: confraternities, hospitals, and pictures for the destitute -- Art and the commune: politics, propaganda, and the bureaucratic state -- Pictures for merchants: the guilds, their paintings, and the struggle for power -- Public painting in sacred spaces: piers and pilasters in Florentine churches -- Murals for the masses: paintings on nave walls -- Masaccio's Trinity and the triumph of public painting for common people in early republican Florence.

Call Number

JQF 17-455

ISBN

• 9781107139763
• 1107139767

LCCN

2016021810

OCLC

950084119

Author

Bent, George R., author.

Title

Public painting and visual culture in early republican Florence / George R. Bent, Washington and Lee University.

Publisher

New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2016.

Copyright Date

©2016

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-323) and index.

Chronological Term

To 1500

Research Call Number

JQF 17-455