Art as Politics in Late Medieval and Renaissance Siena
Brand: Routledge
Categories: Books, New, Used & Rental Textbooks, Humanities



Dimensions: 7 x 1 x 9.75 inches
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1409400662
Publisher: Routledge
Print length: 248 pages
Publication date: October 15, 2012
ISBN-13: 978-1409400660
Edition: 1st
subtitle: 1st Edition
author: TimothyB. Smith
review: Editorial Reviews Review '... valuable for expanding, or perhaps even changing, the lens through which Sienese art is viewed.' CAA Reviews 'Although addressing a wide range of topics, the essays are methodologically similar in their analysis of images, buildings, and forms as instruments of political agendas. The volume is coherent, a pleasure to read, and presents many new ideas about both major monuments and lesser-known works.' The Medieval Review ' Art as Politics in Late Medieval and Renaissance Siena makes bold moves. One would not expect a book by that title to steer around perhaps the most famously political images of premodern Europe, the government allegories painted by Ambrogio Lorenzetti in Siena’s Palazzo Pubblico. Further, taking a cue from Chinese painting, editors Timothy Smith and Judith Steinhoff call for a nonlinear view of artistic development in Siena and a turn away from stylistic innovation as a primary qualification for Sienese objects of art historical study.' Studies in Iconography About the Author Timothy B. Smith is an Associate Professor of Art History at Birmingham-Southern College, USA. Judith B. Steinhoff is an Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Houston, USA.