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Sienese Painting after the Black Death
Judith Steinhoff
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Description for Sienese Painting after the Black Death
paperback. This book provides a new perspective on Sienese painting after the Black Death. Num Pages: 278 pages. BIC Classification: ACN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 179 x 15. Weight in Grams: 716.
This book provides a new perspective on Sienese painting after the Black Death, asking how social, religious, and cultural change affect visual imagery and style. Judith Steinhoff demonstrates that Siena's artistic culture of the mid and late fourteenth century was intentionally pluralistic, and not conservative as is often claimed. She shows that Sienese art both before and after the Black Death was the material expression of an artistically sophisticated population that consciously and carefully integrated tradition and change. Promoting both iconographic and stylistic pluralism, Sienese patrons furthered their own goals as well as addressed the culture's changing needs. Steinhoff presents ... Read more
This book provides a new perspective on Sienese painting after the Black Death, asking how social, religious, and cultural change affect visual imagery and style. Judith Steinhoff demonstrates that Siena's artistic culture of the mid and late fourteenth century was intentionally pluralistic, and not conservative as is often claimed. She shows that Sienese art both before and after the Black Death was the material expression of an artistically sophisticated population that consciously and carefully integrated tradition and change. Promoting both iconographic and stylistic pluralism, Sienese patrons furthered their own goals as well as addressed the culture's changing needs. Steinhoff presents ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
278
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107686694
SKU
V9781107686694
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Ref
99-12
About Judith Steinhoff
Judith Steinhoff is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Houston. She has contributed to Renaissance Studies, Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschicte, and The Art Bulletin.
Reviews for Sienese Painting after the Black Death
"This is a provocative book that devotes sustained attention to a period that is still from many points of view enigmatic. It does achieve its main purpose of illustrating the multiple stylistic strands that characterized late-trecento Sienese painting." -Julian Gardner, University of Warwick, Journal of Medieval Studies “Solid scholarship on an understudied Sienese painter, Bartolommeo Bulgarini, active ... Read more