Author : William Robert Cook
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 11,25 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004131671
New studies of the Basilica in Assisi as well as innovative looks at early panel paintings and Franciscan stained glass are included.
Author : Louise Bourdua
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,63 MB
Release : 2011-03-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780521281287
Louise Bourdua examines how Franciscan church decoration developed between 1250 and 1400 by focusing on three important churches. She argues that local Franciscan friars were more interested in their personal conception of artistic programs than following models of decoration issued officially from the mother church at Assisi. Lay patrons also had considerable input into the decoration programs. Bourdua demonstrates how archival documentation and art can be combined to extend our understanding of the Franciscan art programs.
Author : Anne Derbes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 41,48 MB
Release : 1998-02-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780521639262
This study examines the narrative paintings of the Passion of Christ created in Italy during the thirteenth century. Demonstrating the radical changes that occurred in the depiction of the Passion cycle during the Duecento, a period that has traditionally been dismissed as artistically stagnant, Anne Derbes analyzes the relationship between these new images and similar renderings found in Byzantine sources. She argues that the Franciscan order, which was active in the Levant by the 1230s, was largely responsible for introducing these images into Italy.
Author : Trinita Kennedy
Publisher : Philip Wilson Publishers
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 12,9 MB
Release : 2014-10-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781781300268
Published in conjunction with the exhibition Sanctity Pictured: The Art of the Dominican and Franciscan Orders in Renaissance Italy (October 31, 2014-January 25, 2015) at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, Tennessee.
Author : Andrew Graham-Dixon
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 30,12 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780520223752
A history of Renaissance art, placing the time in its historical and political context and arguing that the Renaissance grew out of the achievements of the medieval period.
Author : Julian Gardner
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 12,74 MB
Release : 2011-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 0674050800
Political strife and religious faction lacerated fourteenth-century Italy. Giotto's commissions are best understood against the background of this social turmoil. They reflected the demands of his patrons, the requirements of the Franciscan Order, and the restlessly inventive genius of the painter. Julian Gardner examines this important period of Giotto's path-breaking career through works originally created for Franciscan churches: Stigmatization of Saint Francis from San Francesco at Pisa, now in the Louvre, the Bardi Chapel cycle of the Life of St. Francis in Santa Croce at Florence, and the frescoes of the crossing vault above the tomb of Saint Francis in the Lower Church of San Francesco at Assisi.
Author : Holly Flora
Publisher : Harvey Miller Publishers
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 21,52 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Art
ISBN :
Cimabue and the Franciscans sheds new light on the legendary artist Cimabue, revealing his sophisticated engagement with complicated intellectual and theological ideas about materials, memory, beauty, and experience. This book offers a fresh look at the broader question of artistic change in the late thirteenth century by examining the intersection of two histories: that of the artist Cimabue (ca. 1240-1302), and that of the Franciscan Order. While focused on the work of a single artist, this study sheds new light on the religious motives and artistic means that fueled the period's visual and spiritual transformations. Flora's study reveals that Cimabue was not just a crucial figure in processes of stylistic change. He and his Franciscan patrons engaged with complicated intellectual and theological ideas about materials, memory, beauty, and experience, creating innovative works of art that celebrated the Order and enabled new modes of Christian devotion. Cimabue's contributions to the history of art thus can finally be recognized for their wide-ranging scope and impact within the rapidly-evolving religious culture of the late thirteenth century.
Author : Xavier Seubert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 48,91 MB
Release : 2019-10-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 1000710866
The book investigates the aesthetic theology embedded in the Franciscan artistic tradition. The novelty of the approach is in applying concepts gleaned from Franciscan textual sources to create a deeper understanding of how art in all its sensual forms was foundational to the Franciscan milieu. Chapters range from studies of statements about aesthetics and the arts in theological textual sources to examples of visual, auditory, and tactile arts communicating theological ideas found in texts. The essays cover not only European art and textual sources, but also Franciscan influences in the Americas found in both texts and artifacts.
Author : Joanna Cannon
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,19 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Architecture and society
ISBN : 9780300187656
The Dominican friars of late-medieval Italy were vowed to a life of religious poverty, yet their churches contained many visual riches. Featuring works by supreme practitioners such as Cimabue, Duccio, Giotto and Simone Martini, this book sets the art of the Dominican churches in a wider context.
Author : Donal Cooper
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,68 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Art patronage
ISBN : 9780300195712
For a moment at the close of the 13th century the town of Assisi was the focus for the two greatest powers in the Latin church. The election of Nicholas IV was the catalyst for the creation of frescoes in the Basilica of San Francesco. In this book the authors investigate the particular moment the frescoes were made casting new light on their patronage and iconography.
