Siena, Stadt der Jungfrau. Siena, the City of the Virgin ... Translated ... by Margaret McDonough Brown, etc. With illustrations.
Title | Siena, Stadt der Jungfrau. Siena, the City of the Virgin ... Translated ... by Margaret McDonough Brown, etc. With illustrations. PDF eBook |
Author | Titus Burckhardt |
Publisher | |
Pages | 126 |
Release | 1960 |
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Siena, the City of the Virgin
Title | Siena, the City of the Virgin PDF eBook |
Author | Titus Burckhardt |
Publisher | |
Pages | 126 |
Release | 1960 |
Genre | Art |
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Subject Index of Modern Books Acquired
Title | Subject Index of Modern Books Acquired PDF eBook |
Author | British Library |
Publisher | |
Pages | 624 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | Best books |
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Siena, City of the Virgin
Title | Siena, City of the Virgin PDF eBook |
Author | Titus Burckhardt |
Publisher | World Wisdom Books |
Pages | 148 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Art |
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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.
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Title | General Catalogue of Printed Books PDF eBook |
Author | British Museum. Department of Printed Books |
Publisher | |
Pages | 440 |
Release | 1968 |
Genre | English imprints |
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Siena: the city of the Virgin, tr, into English by M.M. Brown
Title | Siena: the city of the Virgin, tr, into English by M.M. Brown PDF eBook |
Author | Titus Purckhardt |
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Genre | Art |
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Siena and the Virgin
Title | Siena and the Virgin PDF eBook |
Author | Diana Norman |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 1999-01-01 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0300080069 |
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.