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Early Italian & Renaissance

Studies in the History of Italian Art 1250-1550

by Bruce Cole

24 x 17 cm 443 pp. 324 illus.
£150.00
Publication: 1996
ISBN 0 907132 92 8
Buckram Bound

Professor Cole has written extensively over the last twenty years on Italian art of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, with monographs published on Giotto, Masaccio and Piero della Francesca, and a standard work on Agnolo Gaddi. He is co-editor of the Corpus of Early Italian Paintings, now in preparation.

This book brings together thirty-five of Professor Cole's papers and reviews. They include studies of the great figures of trecento and quattrocento Tuscan art, reconstructions and rediscoveries of works from the period, catalogues of Italian works of art in American collections, and reviews of new and standard works in the field.

Contents

Preface
The Interior Decoration of the Palazzo Datini in Prato
A Madonna Panel from the Circle of the Early Duccio
A New Work by the Master of the Arte della Lana Coronation
A Reconstruction of Masolino's True Cross Cycle in Santo Stefano, Empoli
Three New Works by Cenni di Francesco
A New Work by the Young Lorenzo di Niccolò
Masaccio, Lippi or Hugford?
A Giottesque Crucifix in San Pietro in Monticelli
On an Early Florentine Fresco
Another Look at Giotto's Stigmatization of Saint Francis
Richard Offner and Modern Trecento Scholarship
Giovanni Lami's Dissertazione Old and New in the Early Trecento
Il Cristo in pietà - Un Taddeo di Bartolo trascurato
Giotto's Apparition of St. Francis at Arles: The Case of the Missing Crucifix?
A Popular Painting from the Early Trecento
Some Discoveries in the Cappella Maggiore in Santa Croce, Florence
Ruskin at Assisi
Some Sinopie by Taddeo Gaddi Reconsidered
Taddeo Gaddi, Giotto, and Assisi
A New Niccolò di Buonaccorso
Italian Maiolica from Midwestern Collections
Morelli, Mea, and Giotto
Some Thoughts on Orcagna and the Black Death Style
Painting After Mid-Century
The Last Quarter of the Trecento
Virtues and Vices in Giotto's Arena Chapel Frescoes
Titian and the Idea of Originality in the Renaissance
R. Offner and K. Steinweg, Giovanni del Biondo (Corpus of Florentine Painting)
R. Oertel, Early Italian Painting to 1400
M. Lavin, Piero della Francesca: The Flagellation
H.W. van Os and M. Prakken, The Florentine Paintings in Holland
B. Fredericksen and F. Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Painting in North American Public Collections
A. Smart, The Dawn of Italian Painting
J. Hook, Siena: A City and Its History
Additional Notes
Index