Picturing the Passion in Late Medieval Italy: Narrative Painting, Franciscan Ideologies, and the Levant - Couverture souple

Derbes, Anne

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0521639263 ISBN 13 : 9780521639262

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

A study of thirteenth-century Italian narrative paintings of the Passion of Christ.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This study examines the narrative paintings of the Passion of Christ created in Italy during the thirteenth century. Demonstrating the radical changes that occurred in the depiction of the Passion cycle during the Duecento, a period that has traditionally been dismissed as artistically stagnant, Anne Derbes analyses the relationship between these new images and similar renderings found in Byzantine sources. She argues that the Franciscan order, which was active in the Levant by the 1230s, was largely responsible for introducing these images into Italy. But Byzantine art was not imported for its irresistible attraction, as has previously been argued. Rather, Derbes contends, Byzantine images served as vital models, providing formal and iconographic solutions that could be adapted to the Franciscans' own spiritual programme.

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'This book is an exemplum of the best 'new' art history in its analysis of texts, social setting and art production.' The Art Newspaper

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521639263
• ISBN 13: 9780521639262
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 290
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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