Full Description
Buildings and their surrounding spaces influence the collective identity of an urban population. In turn, images of buildings in paintings and other artwork can reveal much about the character of a city.
This richly illustrated text focuses primarily on Rome, Assisi, Siena and Florence from circa 1250 to circa 1390. It addresses four key issues in the study of change in architectural imagery and urban identity: 13th century Roman painting and its importance for 14th century painting in Tuscany; the Tuscan-Byzantine relationship from the mid- to late 13th century; "naturalistic" representation of medieval painting; and the meaning behind some of the stylistic changes that coincided with the bubonic plague in the 14th century.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Introduction
1. Rome Rebuilt: Architectural Imagery and the Revival of Medieval Rome
"Reconstructing" Medieval Rome and Its Art
The Sancta Sanctorum and the Image of Rome
Thirteenth-Century Restoration of St. Paul's and the Pilgrim Experience
The Portico at St. Peter's
The Artistic Environment in Rome and Beyond at the End of the Thirteenth Century
Stylistic Diversity in Thirteenth-Century Rome
2. Byzantium Bypassed: Architectural Images and the Rejection of the Maniera Greca c. 1300
The Arena and the Kariye Compared
Italian and Byzantine Artistic Currents and Interchange
Inventing the "Maniera Greca" Relations between Byzantium and Italy, Artistic and Otherwise
3. Picturing Places: Trecento Painting and the Emergence of the "Architectural Portrait"
The Pilgrim Experience at Assisi
Memory Techniques and the Architectural Portraits
Assisi, Rome and Pilgrimage in the Late Thirteenth Century
Changes in Portraiture Form in the Fourteenth Century
Conclusion
4. The Celebrated City: Civic Ritual and the Language of Architectural Imagery, 1300 to 1340
Images of Architecture and Real Buildings
Continued Presence of Conventional Ways of Representing Architecture
Ritual Life in Early Trecento Florence and Siena
The Symbolic Role of Architecture in Ritual Life
5. Crisis and Convention: Change in Architectural Imagery in the Second Half of the Fourteenth Century
Changes in Images of Architecture
Civic Experience in the Second Half of the Century
Conclusion
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
