Public painting and visual culture in early republican Florence /
Bent, George R.,author.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-323) and index.
Introduction: public painting and visual culture in early republican Florence, 1282-1434 -- Paintings in the streets: tabernacles, public devotion, and control -- Images of charity: confraternities, hospitals, and pictures for the destitute -- Art and the commune: politics, propaganda, and the bureaucratic state -- Pictures for merchants: the guilds, their paintings, and the struggle for power -- Public painting in sacred spaces: piers and pilasters in Florentine churches -- Murals for the masses: paintings on nave walls -- Masaccio's Trinity and the triumph of public painting for common people in early republican Florence.
Painting, Italian
Public art
Art and society
Art and society.
Civilization.
Painting, Italian
Public art.