1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910733894003321

Autore

D'Alessandro, Vincenzo <1934- >

Titolo

L' Italia del Medioevo / Vincenzo D'Alessandro

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Roma, : Editori riuniti, c1985

ISBN

88-359-2868-0

Descrizione fisica

159 p. : ill. ; 20 cm

Collana

Libri di base ; 91

Libri di base. Sezione 2. : La storia : epoche ed eventi

Disciplina

945.03

930.5

Locazione

FLFBC

Collocazione

DFT D35 ALEV 01

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Compl. del tit. in cop.: Dal tramonto di Roma alle liberta comunali



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910969753303321

Autore

Gardner Julian

Titolo

Giotto and his publics : three paradigms of patronage / / Julian Gardner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass. : , : Harvard University Press, , 2011

ISBN

9780674060975

0674060970

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 pages)

Collana

Bernard Berenson lectures on the Italian Renaissance

Classificazione

21.02

Altri autori (Persone)

Giotto <1266?-1337.>

Disciplina

759.5

Soggetti

Art patronage - Italy - History - To 1500

Mecenatge

Llibres electrònics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Giotto at Pisa : the Stigmatization for San Francesco -- Giotto among the money-changers : the Bardi Chapel in Santa Croce -- The lull before the storm : the Vele in the lower church at Assisi -- Conclusion -- Appendix : inscriptions of the Vele -- Chronology.

Sommario/riassunto

This probing analysis of three works by Giotto and the patrons who commissioned them goes far beyond the clichés of Giotto as the founding figure of Western painting. It traces the interactions between Franciscan friars and powerful bankers, illuminating the complex interplay between mercantile wealth and the iconography of poverty.Political strife and religious faction lacerated fourteenth-century Italy. Giotto's commissions are best understood against the background of this social turmoil. They reflected the demands of his patrons, the requirements of the Franciscan Order, and the restlessly inventive genius of the painter. Julian Gardner examines this important period of Giotto's path-breaking career through works originally created for Franciscan churches: Stigmatization of Saint Francis from San Francesco at Pisa, now in the Louvre, the Bardi Chapel cycle of the Life of St. Francis in Santa Croce at Florence, and the frescoes of the crossing vault above the tomb of Saint Francis in the Lower Church of San Francesco at Assisi. These murals were executed during a twenty-year period when internal tensions divided the friars themselves and when



the Order was confronted by a radical change of papal policy toward its defining vow of poverty. The Order had amassed great wealth and built ostentatious churches, alienating many Franciscans in the process and incurring the hostility of other Orders. Many elements in Giotto's frescoes, including references to St. Peter, Florentine politics, and church architecture, were included to satisfy patrons, redefine the figure of Francis, and celebrate the dominant group within the Franciscan brotherhood.