Cimabue and the Franciscans /
Cimabue and the Franciscans sheds new light on the legendary artist Cimabue, revealing his sophisticated engagement with complicated intellectual and theological ideas about materials, memory, beauty and experience. This book offers a fresh look at the broader question of artistic change in the late...
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| Language: | English |
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Turnhout, Belgium :
Harvey Miller Publishers, an imprint of Brepols Publishers,
[2018]
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| Series: | Renovatio artium.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: intersecting histories
- New light on Cimabue's white
- Sensory engagement and contemplative transformation: the Assisi transepts
- The virgin made church: the Marian Apse and evangelists' vault at Assisi
- Place and memory: the Franciscan MaestÃ
- Word and paint made flesh: Cimabue's Santa Croce crucifix
- Pictures, words, and the imagination in Cimabue's Vita Christi
- Epilogue: last transformations in Pisa.