The World of the Early Sienese Painter
Contributors: Gabriele Erasmi (Translator); Arte Dei Pittori (Corporate Author)
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: November 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780271020044
Subjects: European history: c 500 to c 1500; History of art: c 500 CE to c 1400; Painting & paintings; Social history; c 1000 CE to c 1500; Gothic Art; Painting; Art & Art Instruction; Art; Italy; European; History - Renaissance; History - General; Techniques - Painting; Arte dei pittori (Siena); Historiography; Painters; Siena
Description: "Siena of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries was one of the great cities of Europe and its artists - Duccio, Simone Martini, and Ambrogio and Pietro Lorenzetti - were among those who reshaped the nature and place of painting first in Italy, then across Europe.

Drawing on the extraordinary riches of Sienese archives, on early unpublished secondary sources, and on the recent work of historians, Hayden Maginnis situates early Sienese painters within their society and their city and provides the first comprehensive account of the economic, social, religious, and intellectual world of Siena's artists.".

"Where did painters live? How much were they paid? What was their social status? Were painters aware of the novel importance of thirteenth-century optics? Were the famous Sienese painters isolated figures, surrounded by a few secondary figures, or were they part of a larger community?

These and a host of related questions structure Maginnis's book, which demonstrates how firmly painters' lives were embedded in the values and customs of their society and how important the particular character of their society was for the patronage artists received."--BOOK JACKET.