Research Catalog

Title

Siena and the Angevins, 1300-1350 : art, diplomacy, and dynastic ambition / Diana Norman.

Author

Norman, Diana, 1948-

Publication

• Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2018]
• ©2018

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Description

272 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), genealogical table, map, plans; 29 cm +

Summary

Based on extensive new research, this book explores the distinctive political and diplomatic relationship between the late medieval city of Siena and the Angevin royal family of Naples and the ways in which this relationship impacted upon the production and dissemination of Sienese art during the first half of the fourteenth century. Between 1289 and 1327 Siena witnessed a series of lavish ceremonial events marking the visits to the city of successive Angevin kings and princes, members of the French dynasty that ruled the whole of southern Italy. The reason for these magnificent civic rituals was Siena's status as a Guelph city-state closely allied both to the papacy and to the kingdom of Naples. Based on extensive new research, including unpublished archival material, Diana Norman explores in detail the nature and extent of this distinctive political and diplomatic relationship and the ways in which it impacted upon the production and dissemination of Sienese art during the first half of the fourteenth century. In so doing, she demonstrates that this relationship not only informed the conception and resolution of a number of major pictorial schemes for key civic sites in Siena itself, but that it also familiarised the Angevin royal family with the quality of contemporary Sienese art. This, in turn, led to the employment of Sienese artists by the Angevins and to the production of significant images that commemorated various members of the dynasty. In this beautifully illustrated book, works of art executed by well-known fourteenth-century artists - including Simone Martini, Ambrogio Lorenzetti, and Tino di Camaino - are examined in a new light, together with other finely crafted objects produced by lesser known artists, all whom contributed to this hitherto over-looked example of late medieval cultural exchange.

Series Statement

Studies in the visual cultures of the Middle Ages ; vol. 13

Uniform Title

Studies in the visual cultures of the Middle Ages ; v. 13.

Subject

• Angevine family
• Angevine family > Art patronage
• 1300-1399
• Art, Medieval > Italy > Siena (City-state)
• Art patronage > Italy > Siena (City-state) > History > 14th century
• Art > Political aspects > History > Italy > Siena (City-state) > 14th century
• Art > Political aspects
• Art patronage
• Art, Medieval
• Italy > Siena (City-state)

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-253) and index.

Contents

Preface -- Introduction -- Politics and civic ritual -- Art and diplomacy -- Partons and projects -- Royal tombs -- Royal altarpiece and a reliquary -- Chapterhouse of San Francesco, Siena -- Conclusion: Assisi, Florence and Siena.

Call Number

JQF 20-849

ISBN

• 9782503574363
• 250357436X

OCLC

1005727219

Author

Norman, Diana, 1948- author.

Title

Siena and the Angevins, 1300-1350 : art, diplomacy, and dynastic ambition / Diana Norman.

Publisher

Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2018]

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Studies in the visual cultures of the Middle Ages ; vol. 13

Studies in the visual cultures of the Middle Ages ; v. 13.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-253) and index.

Chronological Term

1300-1399

Research Call Number

JQF 20-849