Research Catalog

Title

Trecento Pictoriality : diagrammatic painting in late Medieval Italy / Karl Whittington.

Author

Whittington, Karl

Publication

• London ; Turnhout, Belgium : Harvey Miller Publishers, Imprint of Brepols Publishers, [2023]
• ©2023

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Description

xvi, 351 pages : color illustrations; 29 x 23 cm

Summary

"In dozens of monumental examples across central and northern Italy, late-medieval artists created complex diagrammatic paintings whose content was conveyed not through proto-perspectival spaces but rather through complex circles, trees, hierarchical stemmata, and winding pathways. Trecento Pictoriality is the first comprehensive study of the practice of monumental diagrammatic painting in late-medieval Italy, moving the study of diagrams from the manuscript page to the frescoed wall and tempera panel. Often placed alongside narrative, devotional, and allegorical paintings, the diagrammatic mode was one of a number of pictorial modes available to artists, patrons, and planners, with a unique ability to present complex content to viewers. While monumental diagrams may have sparked some of the experiences usually associated with diagrams in manuscripts, acting as machines for thought, scaffolds for memory, or tools for the visualization of complex concepts, their reception was also shaped by their presence in public spaces, their scale and aura as richly decorated works of monumental visual art, and their insertion into larger pictorial programs. Closely examining the visual and communicative strategies of these paintings expands the horizon of trecento art history beyond narrative and devotional painting, and shifts our understanding of all of the arts of the trecento, calling attention to issues of scale, visual rhetoric, pictorial ingenuity, and reception."--

Alternative Title

Diagrammatic painting in late Medieval Italy

Subject

• 1300-1399
• Painting, Italian > 14th century
• Painting, Italian > 14th century > Themes, motives
• Visual communication in art > Italy > 14th century
• Art, Medieval > Italy > 14th century
• Art, Medieval
• Painting, Italian
• Painting, Italian > Themes, motives
• Visual communication in art
• Themes, motives
• Italy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JQF 23-1350

ISBN

• 9781915487049
• 1915487048

OCLC

1374926508

Author

Whittington, Karl, author. Author

Title

Trecento Pictoriality : diagrammatic painting in late Medieval Italy / Karl Whittington.

Publisher

London ; Turnhout, Belgium : Harvey Miller Publishers, Imprint of Brepols Publishers, [2023]

Copyright Date

©2023

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1300-1399

Research Call Number

JQF 23-1350