Celebrating the Virgin Mary as both an object of religious affection and a focus of civic pride, artists of fourteenth-century Siena established for their city a vibrant tradition that continued into the early decades of the next century. Such celebratory portraits of the Virgin were also common in Siena's extensive subject territories, the contado. This richly illustrated book explores late medieval Sienese art--how it was created, commissioned, and understood by the citizens of Siena. Examining political, economic, and ...
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Celebrating the Virgin Mary as both an object of religious affection and a focus of civic pride, artists of fourteenth-century Siena established for their city a vibrant tradition that continued into the early decades of the next century. Such celebratory portraits of the Virgin were also common in Siena's extensive subject territories, the contado. This richly illustrated book explores late medieval Sienese art--how it was created, commissioned, and understood by the citizens of Siena. Examining political, economic, and cultural relations between Siena and the contado, Diana Norman offers a new understanding of Marian art and its political function as an expression of civic ideology. Drawing on extensive unpublished archives, Norman reconstructs the circumstances surrounding the commission of Marian art in the three most prestigious locations of fourteenth-century Siena: the cathedral, the Palazzo Pubblico, and the hospital of Santa Maria della Scala. She analyzes similarly important commissions in the contado towns of Massa Marittima, Montalcino, and Montepulciano. Casting new light on such topics as the original site for the reliquary tomb of Saint Cerbone, patron saint of Massa Marittima, and the identity of the patrons of the Marian frescoes in the rural hermitage of San Leonardo al Lago, the author deepens our insight into the origins and meanings of Sienese art production of the late medieval period.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Folio-over 12-15" tall Folio-over 12-15" tall. xi, 252pp. Near fine hardcover in like dust-jacket. Extensively illustrated in color and black & white. Only extremely faint signs of handling to the dust-jacket. Extra international postage required.
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Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 0300080069. Text clean and tight; NOTE: additional postage may be necessary for international shipping; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 264 pages.
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Fine in Near fine jacket. Presumed first edition, 1999, hardcover with blue cloth boards in dust jacket and original cardboard slipcase, quarto, 251pp., illustrated in color and b&w. Book fine with handsome boards and tight binding, text clean bright and unmarked. DJ near fine with hint of edgewear. Slipcase VG+ with toning, wear to edges.
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Very Good. Size: 11x10x1; Yale University Press; New Haven, 1999. Hardcover. A Very Good, blue cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine, binding sturdy and intact, mild spine lean, some sunning to page margins, small dent top rear board fore-edge, mild waving to pages along edges, in a Very Good, some handling/scuff marks to panels, mild edge/corner wear, Dust wrapper. A nice, clean and unmarked copy. 4to[quarto or approx. 11.5 x 13.5 inches], 251pp., epilogue, notes, bibliography, indexed, acknowledgements, color and b&w illustrations. We pack securely and ship daily with delivery confirmation on every book. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. Additional Scan(s) are available for any item, please inquire.
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Fine in fine jacket. Illustrated with color and b/w images throughout. 252 pages. 4to, blue cloth, d.w. New Haven: Yale University Press, (1999). First edition. A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper.
