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OverviewCelebrating 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 Drawing on extensive unpublished archives, Norman reconstructs the circumstances surrounding the commission of Marian art in the three most prestigious locations of fourteenth-century Siena: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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Diana NormanPublisher: Yale University Press Imprint: Yale University Press Dimensions: Width: 24.80cm , Height: 0.30cm , Length: 29.20cm Weight: 1.887kg ISBN: 9780300080063ISBN 10: 0300080069 Pages: 264 Publication Date: 10 September 1999 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: Out of stock  Table of ContentsReviewsThe general resurgence of interest in the dawn of the Renaissance includes Diana Norman's Siena and the Virgin . It illuminates the special relationship that the people of 14th and early 15th-century Siena attempted to forge with the Virgin Mary in the art they commissioned and created, and in how they understood it. It examines political, economic and cultural relations between Siena and the 'contado', it offers an understanding of the art and its expression of cvic ideology. Diana Norman is Senior Lecturer in Art History at the Open University in Britain. (Kirkus UK) Author InformationDiana Norman is senior lecturer in art history at the Open University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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