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Public painting and visual culture in early republican Florence /

"Street corners, guild halls, government offices, and confraternity centers contained paintings that made the city of Florence a visual jewel at precisely the time of its emergence as an international cultural leader. This book considers the paintings that were made specifically for considerati...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bent, George R. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.