Siena And The Virgin

Author : Diana Norman
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300080063

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Siena and the Virgin by Diana Norman Pdf

Celebrating the Virgin Mary as both an object of religious affection and a focus of civic pride, artists of fourteenth-century Siena established for their city a vibrant tradition that continued into the early decades of the next century. Such celebratory portraits of the Virgin were also common in Siena's extensive subject territories, the contado. This richly illustrated book explores late medieval Sienese art--how it was created, commissioned, and understood by the citizens of Siena. Examining political, economic, and cultural relations between Siena and the contado, Diana Norman offers a new understanding of Marian art and its political function as an expression of civic ideology. Drawing on extensive unpublished archives, Norman reconstructs the circumstances surrounding the commission of Marian art in the three most prestigious locations of fourteenth-century Siena: the cathedral, the Palazzo Pubblico, and the hospital of Santa Maria della Scala. She analyzes similarly important commissions in the contado towns of Massa Marittima, Montalcino, and Montepulciano. Casting new light on such topics as the original site for the reliquary tomb of Saint Cerbone, patron saint of Massa Marittima, and the identity of the patrons of the Marian frescoes in the rural hermitage of San Leonardo al Lago, the author deepens our insight into the origins and meanings of Sienese art production of the late medieval period.

Author : Titus Burckhardt
Publisher : London ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1960 [c1958]
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015004031749

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Siena, the City of the Virgin by Titus Burckhardt Pdf

Author : Titus Burckhardt
Publisher : World Wisdom Books
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131618659

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Siena, City of the Virgin by Titus Burckhardt Pdf

This beautifully illustrated book examines the history, culture, and spirituality of the Italian city of Siena. Through color photographs, maps, and reproductions of original manuscripts, Burckhardt invites the reader to walk the streets of a city whose history mirrors the development of Christianity in Europe.

Author : Fabrizio Nevola
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0300126786

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Siena by Fabrizio Nevola Pdf

Weaving together social, political, economic and architectural history, this book explores the role of key patrons in Siena's urban projects, including Pope Pius II Piccolomini and his family, and the quasi-despot Pandolfo Petrucci.

Author : Gerald Parsons
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351900133

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Siena, Civil Religion and the Sienese by Gerald Parsons Pdf

Siena is often referred to as the 'City of the Virgin' and the 'City of the Palio'. The special devotion of the Sienese to the Virgin began in the thirteenth century and in times of danger the Sienese have regularly rededicated their city to the Madonna, who is also celebrated in the twice-yearly festival of the Palio. Siena, Civil Religion and the Sienese examines Sienese devotion to the Virgin from the medieval period until the present day. Exploring how the Palio has become the principal means of sustaining and celebrating Sienese culture, values and identity - including popular devotion to the Virgin - Parsons shows how this festival stands in continuity with the earlier civil religion of medieval and renaissance Siena. Drawing on insights from recent discussion of the role of civil religion in medieval and renaissance Italy, the USA and modern Britain, this book explores how civil religion sustains the Sienese sense of their history, identity and uniqueness through a variety of beliefs, rituals, ceremonies and symbols. Highly illustrated and including a full bibliography, this book breaks new ground in interpreting Sienese devotion to the Virgin and to the Palio in terms of 'civil religion'.

Author : Roxanne Claire Farrar
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : 9042012323

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Sartrean Dialectics by Roxanne Claire Farrar Pdf

This book presents a modification of the dialectical method of Jean-Paul Sartre as a tool for critical discourse on aesthetic experience. Three practical demonstrations are offered of the modified progressive-regressive method: (1) on the original location and function of a medieval altarpiece, (2) on a theme in the literature of the Marquis de Sade, and (3) on a theory of consciousness in a novel by Samuel Beckett. The study concludes with guidelines on how the method may enhance critical discourse in teaching.

Author : John T. Hamilton
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400846474

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Security by John T. Hamilton Pdf

From national security and social security to homeland and cyber-security, "security" has become one of the most overused words in culture and politics today. Yet it also remains one of the most undefined. What exactly are we talking about when we talk about security? In this original and timely book, John Hamilton examines the discursive versatility and semantic vagueness of security both in current and historical usage. Adopting a philological approach, he explores the fundamental ambiguity of this word, which denotes the removal of "concern" or "care" and therefore implies a condition that is either carefree or careless. Spanning texts from ancient Greek poetry to Roman Stoicism, from Augustine and Luther to Machiavelli and Hobbes, from Kant and Nietzsche to Heidegger and Carl Schmitt, Hamilton analyzes formulations of security that involve both safety and negligence, confidence and complacency, certitude and ignorance. Does security instill more fear than it assuages? Is a security purchased with freedom or human rights morally viable? How do security projects inform our expectations, desires, and anxieties? And how does the will to security relate to human finitude? Although the book makes clear that security has always been a major preoccupation of humanity, it also suggests that contemporary panics about security and the related desire to achieve perfect safety carry their own very significant risks.

Author : Paola Tinagli
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1997-06-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 071904054X

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Women in Italian Renaissance Art by Paola Tinagli Pdf

This is the first book which gives a general overview of women as subject-matter in Italian Renaissance painting. It presents a view of the interaction between artist and patron, and also of the function of these paintings in Italian society of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Using letters, poems, and treatises, it examines through the eyes of the contemporary viewer the way women were represented in paintings.

Author : Beth Williamson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351788434

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Art, Politics and Civic Religion in Central Italy, 1261–1352 by Beth Williamson Pdf

This title was first published in 2000: Introduced by Joanna Cannon, this volume of essays by postgraduate students at the Courtauld Institute, University of London, explores some of the ways in which art was used to express, to celebrate, and to promote the political and religious aims and aspirations of those in power in the city states of central Italy in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The contributions focus on four centres: Siena, Arezzo, Pisa and Orvieto, and range over a number of media: fresco, panel painting, sculpture, metalwork, and translucent enamel. Employing a variety of methods and approaches, these stimulating essays offer a fresh look at some of the key artistic projects of the period. The dates cited in the title, 1261 and 1352, refer to two well-known works, Coppo di Marcovaldo’s Madonna del Bordone and the Guidoriccio Fresco in the Palazzo Pubblico of Siena, here newly assigned to this date. By concentrating on individual cases such as these, the essays provide rewardingly sustained consideration, at the same time raising crucial issues concerning the role of art in the public life of the period. These generously-illustrated studies introduce new material and advance new arguments, and are all based on original research. Clear and lively presentation ensures that they are also accessible to students and scholars from other disciplines. Art, Politics and Civic Religion in Central Italy, 1261-1352 is the first volume in the new series Courtauld Institute Research Papers. The series makes available original recently researched material on western art history from classical antiquity to the present day.

Author : Barbara Hanawalt,Kathryn Reyerson
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816623597

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City and Spectacle in Medieval Europe by Barbara Hanawalt,Kathryn Reyerson Pdf

Urban ceremonial in the Middle Ages took various forms and served a number of different ends--private, collegial, political, and religious. Broadly construed, urban ceremonial included public functions of multiple sorts. From private, but public, celebrations of births, marriages, and deaths to the grand entries of rulers into cities, the spectacles were designed to impress events on collective memory. - from the Introduction.

Author : Augustine Thompson
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0271046279

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Cities of God by Augustine Thompson Pdf

When religion is considered, the subjects are usually saints, heretics, theologians, and religious leaders, thereby ignoring the vast majority of those who lived in the communes. Drawing on many ecclesiastical and secular sources, this book aims to give a voice to the majority - orthodox lay people and those who ministered to them.

Author : TimothyB. Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351575584

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Art as Politics in Late Medieval and Renaissance Siena by TimothyB. Smith Pdf

In Art as Politics in Late Medieval and Renaissance Siena, contributors explore the evolving relationship between image and politics in Siena from the time of the city-state's defeat of Florence at the Battle of Montaperti in 1260 to the end of the Sienese Republic in 1550. Engaging issues of the politicization of art in Sienese painting, sculpture, architecture, and urban design, the volume challenges the still-prevalent myth of Siena's cultural and artistic conservatism after the mid fourteenth century. Clearly establishing uniquely Sienese artistic agendas and vocabulary, these essays broaden our understanding of the intersection of art, politics, and religion in Siena by revisiting its medieval origins and exploring its continuing role in the Renaissance.

Author : Of Siena Saint Catherine
Publisher : Sagwan Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1376753669

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The Dialogue of the Seraphic Virgin Catherine of Siena by Of Siena Saint Catherine Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Saint Catherine (of Siena)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Mysticism
ISBN : UCD:31175001832511

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The Dialogue of the Seraphic Virgin, Catherine of Siena by Saint Catherine (of Siena) Pdf

Author : Diana Norman
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300099339

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Painting in Late Medieval and Renaissance Siena, 1260-1555 by Diana Norman Pdf

The city of Siena, one of Italy's major artistic centers, was home to many celebrated painters, among them Duccio, Simone Martini, Ambrogio and Pietro Lorenzetti, Sassetta and Beccafumi. This generously illustrated book provides a survey of Sienese painting from 1260 to 1555, an era of extraordinary artistic creativity in the Tuscan city. Art historian Diana Norman addresses the style and artistic technique of Sienese painters throughout the three centuries and explores why paintings were made, where they were originally seen, and how they were used and enjoyed by their audiences. The book focuses on works of art made for Siena itself, many of which are still to be seen within the city. Norman organizes the discussion around types of commissions and throughout the book situates the paintings within the context of the political, social, and religious circumstances of late medieval and renaissance Siena.