Art, knowledge, and papal politics in medieval Rome : interpreting the Aula Gotica fresco cycle at the SS Quatro Coronati /
"This volume offers a thorough investigation of the fresco cycle-which include allegorical representations of the liberal arts, the virtues and vices, the seasons, the signs of the zodiac, and the months of the year-in relation to the papacy's growing interest in fields of worldly knowledg...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2025.
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| Summary: | "This volume offers a thorough investigation of the fresco cycle-which include allegorical representations of the liberal arts, the virtues and vices, the seasons, the signs of the zodiac, and the months of the year-in relation to the papacy's growing interest in fields of worldly knowledge such as music, time, astrology, and medicine"-- |
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| Item Description: | Outgrowth of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Princeton University, 2014, under the title: The image of the world in thirteenth-century Rome. |
| Physical Description: | ix, 359 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781009535762 1009535765 9781009535809 1009535803 |