Public Painting and Visual Culture in Early Republican Florence

Public Painting and Visual Culture in Early Republican Florence

Bent, George R

Cambridge University Press

01/2017

352

Dura

Inglês

9781107139763

15 a 20 dias

This book reconstructs and interprets the decorative appearance of one of the world's greatest cities at the dawn of its golden age. For scholarly and general audiences, it focuses on the needs and interests of common people as a way of thinking about art within the broader context of history.
Introduction: public painting for common people in early republican Florence, 1282-1434; 1. Paintings in the streets: tabernacles, public devotion, and control; 2. Images of charity: confraternities, hospitals, and pictures for the destitute; 3. Art and the commune: politics, propaganda, and the bureaucratic state; 4. Pictures for merchants: the guilds, their paintings, and the struggle for power; 5. Public painting in sacred spaces: piers and pilasters in Florentine churches; 6. Murals for the masses: paintings on nave walls; 7. Masaccio's Trinity and the triumph of public painting for common people in early republican Florence.