Research Catalog

Title

Giovanni da Rimini : Scenes from the lives of the virgin and other saints / Anna Koopstra.

Author

Koopstra, Anna

Publication

• London : National Gallery, 2017.
• [New Haven] : Distributed by Yale University Press, 2017
• ©2017

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Additional Authors

• Giovanni, da Rimini, active 1292-1309
• National Gallery (Great Britain) host institution.

Description

64 pages : color illustrations; 27 cm

Summary

This monograph celebrates the National Gallery's 2015 acquisition of Giovanni da Rimini's 'Scenes from the Lives of the Virgin and Other Saints' (c. 1300--1305). The painting is a rare survival from the late Middle Ages, uniting the exquisite detail of late Byzantine icons with the new, more naturalistic and expressive style exemplified by the Florentine painter Giotto. Probably created for private contemplation and worship, the painting may be the left wing of a diptych, a theory that is examined here in relation to its assumed companion panel Scenes from the Life of Christ (from the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Palazzo Barberini, Rome). Significant new research explains its iconography, its devotional function, and the historical context in which it was created, while fresh technical analysis brings a greater understanding of the making and purpose of the panels and how they were originally displayed.00Exhibition: National Gallery, London, UK (14.06-08.10.2017).

Alternative Title

Scenes from the lives of the Virgin and other Saints

Subject

• Giovanni, da Rimini, active 1292-1309 > Exhibitions
• Giovanni, da Rimini, active 1292-1309. > Exhibitions
• 500-1500
• Christian art and symbolism > Italy > Rimini > Medieval, 500-1500 > Exhibitions
• Painting, Gothic > Italy > Rimini > Exhibitions
• Painting, Italian > Italy > Rimini > 14th century > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs

Note

• "Published to accompany the exhibition "Giovanni da Rimini: a 14th-century Masterpiece Unveiled, 14 June - 8 October 2017."--Title page verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 60-63).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

|g Director's preface -- |g Introduction -- |g I. |t Giovanni da Rimini and painting in Rimini around 1300 -- |g II. |t Giovanni da Rimini's Scenes from the lives of the Virgin, Saint John the Evangelist, Saint Catherine of Alexandria, Saint Francis and Saint John the Baptist -- |g III. |t (Hinged) diptych, pendant panel or independent panel painting?: reconsidering the painting's original function.

ISBN

• 9781857096224
• 1857096223

OCLC

• 990412706
• SCSB-12442701

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library