num_pages: 288
description: Asking how social, religious, and cultural change effect visual imagery and style. Judith Steinhoff demonstrates that Siena's artistic culture of the mid- and late fourteenth century was intentionally pluralistic, and not conservative as is often claimed. She demonstrates that Sienese art both before and after the Black Death was the material expression of an artistically sophisticated population that consciously and carefully integrated tradition and change. Promoting both iconographic and stylistic pluralism, Sienese patrons furthered their own goals as well as addressed the culture's changing needs.
language: English
title: Sienese Painting after the Black Death: Artistic Pluralism, Politics, and the New Art Market
titlecomplete: Sienese Painting after the Black Death: Artistic Pluralism, Politics, and the New Art Market
ratings_count: 4
publisher: Cambridge University Press