The Art of the Franciscan Order in Italy Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : BRILL
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• Release Date : 23 May 2024

New studies of the Basilica in Assisi as well as innovative looks at early panel paintings and Franciscan stained glass are included.

• Publisher : Philip Wilson Publishers
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• Release Date : 30 October 2014

Published in conjunction with the exhibition Sanctity Pictured: The Art of the Dominican and Franciscan Orders in Renaissance Italy (October 31, 2014-January 25, 2015) at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville,

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 28 March 2011

Louise Bourdua examines how Franciscan church decoration developed between 1250 and 1400 by focusing on three important churches. She argues that local Franciscan friars were more interested in their personal conception of

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 17 March 2014

Explores the development and diffusion of the vita image which emerged in Byzantium in the twelfth century and spread to Italy and beyond.

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 05 July 2017

The presence of the orthopedically impaired body in art is so pervasive that, paradoxically, it has failed to attract the attention of most art historians. In Picturing the Lame in

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 05 December 2016

The rise of the mendicant orders in the later Middle Ages coincided with rapid and dramatic shifts in the visual arts. The mendicants were prolific patrons, relying on artworks to

• Publisher : BRILL
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• Release Date : 13 November 2014

Analyzing the literature on art from the Italian Renaissance, The Spiritual Language of Art explores the complex relationship between visual art and spirituality by revealing that terms, concepts and metaphors

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 05 July 2017

Mater Misericordiae?Mother of Mercy?emerged as one of the most prolific subjects in central Italian art from the late thirteenth through the sixteenth centuries. With iconographic origins in Marian

• Publisher : BRILL
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• Release Date : 04 February 2015

In The World of St. Francis of Assisi, thirteen scholars from diverse academic disciplines offer accounts of the way in which St. Francis shaped the world in which he lived

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 31 March 2023

In this book, Diana Bullen Presciutti explores how images of miracles performed by mendicant saints-reviving dead children, redeeming the unjustly convicted, mending broken marriages, quelling factional violence, exorcising the demonically