Devotion by Design: Italian Altarpieces Before 1500 - Couverture rigide

Nethersole, Scott

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1857095251 ISBN 13 : 9781857095258

Editeur : National Gallery Company Ltd, 2011

Synopsis

Museum visitors today usually see pre-16th-century Italian painted altarpieces exhibited alone, as single paintings. Yet this beautiful catalogue shows that these works were once part of decorative, integrated schemes, and the original experience for viewers of the paintings was significantly different from our own.

Focusing on Italian altarpieces from the second half of the 13th century to the very end of the 15th, the book investigates the original functions and locations of altarpieces as well as the circumstances of their dislocations, dismantlings, and reconstructions. Regional variations are also analyzed, and the author examines altarpieces' formal and typological development, taking into account the wealth of related scholarship undertaken in the past thirty years.

Published by National Gallery Company / Distributed by Yale University Press

Exhibition Schedule:

The National Gallery, London
(07/6/11-10/02/11)

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Scott Nethersole is currently Lecturer in Italian Renaissance Art at The Courtauld Institute of Art, London. He was formerly the Harry M. Weinrebe Curatorial Assistant at the National Gallery, London.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: National Gallery Company Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1857095251
• ISBN 13: 9781857095258
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 128
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible