Painting in Florence and Siena after the black death
Subtitle: the arts, religion and society in the mid-fourteenth century
Series: Harper torchbooks; the Academic library, TB 1148; Harper torchbooks -- TB1148.
Publisher: Harper & Row
Published: 1951
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
Subjects: History; Peinture de la Renaissance; Painting; Renaissance Painting; Histoire; Italian Painting; Peinture italienne
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: I. New form and content: Orcagna's altarpiece; Madonna by Nardo; From narrative to ritual; Exaltation of God, the church and the priest; The supernatural; Recovery of the Dugento; title: II. Two cities at mid-century; title: Economic crisis; Political and social change; The Black Death; Economic and social consequences of the plague; The Effect upon culture and art; title: III. Guilt, penance, and religious rapture; The Spanish chapel; title: V. Texts and images; title: VI. Madonna of humility; title: VII. Boccaccio; title: APPENDICES; title: Chronological table; title: Facts about the painters; title: Some Recent criticism of Orcagna; title: New polyptych by Andrea da Firenze