Art as politics in late medieval and renaissance Siena
By: Timothy B. Smith and Judith Steinhoff
Contributors: Steinhoff, Judith B. (Judith Belle), 1953-
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Company
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Burlington
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781409400660
Subjects: Buildings, structures; Art; Italian Art; Architecture
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Urban images and civic identity in medieval Sienese painting / Judith Steinhoff; title: Cistercian gothic in a civic setting: the translation of the pointed arch in Sienese architecture, 1250-1350 / Ann Johns; title: "Vedete come è bella la cittade quando è ordinata": politics and the art of city planning in republican Siena / Berthold Hub; title: Images of the Virgin and power in late-duecento Siena / Rebecca W. Corrie; title: Iconography and identity in a renaissance republic / Andrea W. Campbell; title: "Santi cittadini": Vecchietta and the civic pantheon in mid fifteenth-century Siena / Diana Norman; title: Politics and antiquity in the Baptist's chapel façade / Timothy B. Smith; title: "Armet se duritia": Domenico Beccafumi and the politics of punishment / Jennifer Sliwka; title: The face of the city: Sodoma at Porta Pispini and the pictorial decoration of Sienese city gates / Machtelt Israëls.