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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Roger Cook , William R. CookPublisher: Brill Imprint: Brill Volume: 1 Dimensions: Width: 16.60cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 24.30cm Weight: 0.934kg ISBN: 9789004131675ISBN 10: 9004131671 Pages: 298 Publication Date: 16 August 2005 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsIntroduction William R. Crook List of illustrations Notes on Contributors 'In loco tutissimo et firmissimo': The Tomb of St. Francis in History, Legend and Art Donal Cooper The Pilgrim's Progress: Reinterpreting the Trecento Fresco Programme in the Lower Chrich at Assisi Janet Robson Prophecy in Stone: The Exterior Facade pf the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi Daniel T. Michaels Cimabue at Assisi: The Virgin, the 'Song of Songs', and the Gift of Love Marilyn Aronberg Lavin The Date of the St. Francis cycle in the Upper Chruch of San Francesco at Assisi: the Evidence of Copies and considerations of Method Thomas de Wesselow The Beholder as Witness: The 'Crib at Greccio' from the Upper church of San Francesco, Assisi and Franciscan Influence on Late Medieval Art in Italy. Beth A. Mulvaney 'I Speak not yet of Proof': Dante and the Art of Assisi Ronald B. Herzman The Representation of post humous Miracles of St Francis of Assisi in Thirteenth-Century Italian Painting Gregory W. Ahlquist and William R. Cook Cooperation and conflict: Stained Glass in the Bardi chapel of Santa Croce Nancy M. Thompson IndicesReviews'Rarely is an edited volume so consistent in the tenor and quality of the scholarship. The only criticism of the volume is that the essays leave the reader thirsty for more. Perhaps this suggests that the interest in Franciscan art is so keen, it might be worthy of a second volume.' Michelle Erhardt, The Medieval Review, 2005 Author InformationWilliam R. Cook, Ph.D. (1971) in History from Cornell University, is Distinguished Teaching Professor at the State University of New York, Geneseo. He has published a brief biography of St Francis (Litrugical Press, 1989) as well as two books on early Franciscan art, most recently Images of St Francis of Assisi (Leo S. Olschki, 1999). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |