| Description |
viii,251 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 30 cm |
| Contents |
Pt. I. Feasts and Fealties. 1. Civic Rituals and Images -- Pt. II. The City. 2. The Cathedral. 3. The Town Hall. 4. The Patronal Altars. 5. The Spedale -- Pt. III. The Contado. 6. Massa Marittima. 7. San Leonardo al Lago. 8. Montalcino. 9. Montepulciano and Siena -- Epilogue: Under the Sway of the Virgin |
| Summary |
"Celebrating the Virgin Mary as both an object of religious devotion and a focus of civic pride, fourteenth-century Sienese artists established within their city a vibrant pictorial tradition that continued into the early decades of the next century. Such celebratory images of the Virgin were also common in Siena's extensive subject territories, the contado. This illustrated book explores late medieval Sienese Marian art - how it was commissioned, created and understood by the Sienese. 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 Sienese civic ideology."--BOOK JACKET |
| Analysis |
Art - Political aspects - Italy - Siena Region |
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Art and society - Italy |
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Art patronage - Italy - Siena Region |
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Art, Gothic - Italy - Siena Region |
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Art, Italian - Italy - Siena Region |
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Arte religioso Siena (Italia) |
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Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint - Art |
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Siena (Italy) - Church history - 476-1400 |
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Siena (Italy) - History |
| Notes |
Bibliography: p. [239]-244 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [239]-244) and index |
| Subject |
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint -- Art.
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Art and society -- Italy -- Siena Region
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Art patronage -- Italy -- Siena Region
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Art -- Political aspects -- Italy -- Siena Region
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Art, Gothic -- Italy -- Siena Region
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Art, Italian -- Italy -- Siena Region
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Christian art and symbolism -- Italy -- Siena Region
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Christian saints in art.
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| LC no. |
99025442 |
| ISBN |
0300080069 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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