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Public Painting and Visual Culture in Early Republican Florence
George R Bent
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Description for Public Painting and Visual Culture in Early Republican Florence
hardcover. This book examines the way common people saw and interpreted paintings produced for - and placed in - public settings in fourteenth-century Florence. Num Pages: 382 pages, 112 b/w illus. 68 colour illus. BIC Classification: 1DST; ACK; AFC; AGC; HBJD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 253 x 177 x 71. Weight in Grams: 1238.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
1238g
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107139763
SKU
V9781107139763
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Ref
99-6
About George R Bent
George R. Bent is the Sydney Gause Childress Professor of the Arts at Washington and Lee University, Virginia, where he has taught in the Department of Art and Art History since 1993. A Fulbright scholar, Bent has written about the art of Lorenzo Monaco, Florentine art of the Late Middle Ages and Early Renaissance, and manuscript production in the fourteenth ... Read more
Reviews for Public Painting and Visual Culture in Early Republican Florence
'We learn, here, not only of works of art, but of the people of the Florentine Republic - of condemned criminals, prostitutes, merchants, government officials, guild members from the Arte della Lana and the Arte dei Giudici e Notai, laudesi, plague victims, the bishop and his entourage, the families of the newly baptized, and the would-be tyrant - and of ... Read more