The Art of the Franciscan Order in Italy

Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-90-04-13167-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 298 Seiten, Format (B × H): 166 mm x 243 mm, Gewicht: 939 g

Reihe: The Medieval Franciscans

This volume of essays, by a group of scholars from the United States and Great Britain, presents a panoramic look at the study of Franciscan art in late medieval and early Renaissance Italy. In addition to being important case studies, the articles suggest a range of methodologies and interdisciplinary perspectives on important works of art. Senior scholars who have worked in the field for decades are joined by a new generation of researchers in the field. New studies of the Basilica in Assisi as well as innovative looks at early panel paintings and Franciscan stained glass are included. Those who study the Franciscan tradition as well as art historians, historians, literary critics, and theologians will find the studies relevant to their work.

Contributors: Donal Cooper; Janet Robson; Daniel T. Michaels; Marilyn Lavin; Thomas De Wesselow; Beth Mulvaney; Ronald B. Herzman; Gregory W. Ahlquist; William R. Cook; Nancy M. Thompson.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cook, Roger

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Künstlerische Stoffe, Motive, Themen Künstlerische Stoffe, Motive, Themen: Religiöse Themen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction William R. Crook
List of illustrations
Notes on Contributors

‘In loco tutissimo et firmissimo’: The Tomb of St. Francis in History, Legend and Art Donal Cooper
The Pilgrim’s Progress: Reinterpreting the Trecento Fresco Programme in the Lower Chrich at Assisi Janet Robson
Prophecy in Stone: The Exterior Façade pf the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi Daniel T. Michaels
Cimabue at Assisi: The Virgin, the ‘Song of Songs’, and the Gift of Love Marilyn Aronberg Lavin
The Date of the St. Francis cycle in the Upper Chruch of San Francesco at Assisi: the Evidence of Copies and considerations of Method Thomas de Wesselow
The Beholder as Witness: The ‘Crib at Greccio’ from the Upper church of San Francesco, Assisi and Franciscan Influence on Late Medieval Art in Italy. Beth A. Mulvaney
‘I Speak not yet of Proof’: Dante and the Art of Assisi Ronald B. Herzman
The Representation of post humous Miracles of St Francis of Assisi in Thirteenth-Century Italian Painting Gregory W. Ahlquist and William R. Cook
Cooperation and conflict: Stained Glass in the Bardi chapel of Santa Croce Nancy M. Thompson

Indices

Über Autor(innen)

William R. Cook, Ph.D. (1971) in History from Cornell University, is Distinguished Teaching Professor at the State University of New York, Geneseo. He has published a brief biography of St Francis (Litrugical Press, 1989) as well as two books on early Franciscan art, most recently Images of St Francis of Assisi (Leo S. Olschki, 1999).