Pindar Press - publishers of art history and archaeology

Early Italian & Renaissance

Studies in Early Tuscan Painting

by Henk van Os

24 x 17 cm 462 pp. 254 illus.
£150.00
Publication: 1992
ISBN 0 907132 45 6
Buckram Bound

Professor van Os has spent twenty years working on Tuscan painting, and his contributions to the study of the Sienese school are of great importance. This volume brings together for the first time his articles on Tuscan art in the period leading up to the Renaissance in Florence and Siena. They represent one of the most important individual approaches to the subject in recent decades. A number of the studies reprinted here have been specially translated from Dutch for this book.

The volume begins with five studies on problems of methodology involved in dealing with the art of this period. Eight further studies follow on the iconography of early Tuscan art. Finally eight studies deal with individual Sienese painters.

Contents

Preface
The Devaluation of Research
The History of Art and Social History
Fakes and their Significance for Cultural History
Vecchietta and the Persona of the Renaissance Artist
The Black Death and Sienese Painting. A Problem of
Interpretation
Snow in Siena
"The Assumption in Sienese Painting
The Madonna and the Mystery Play
St Francis of Assisi as a Second Christ in Early Italian Painting
Vecchietta and Blessed Sorore
The Discovery of an Early Man of Sorrows on a Dominican Triptych
The Earliest Altarpieces of St. Francis
Mary as Seamstress
Possible Additions to the Work of Niccolò di Segna
The Reconstruction of Simone Martini's So-called Polyptych of the Passion
A Choir-book by Lippo Vanni
Lippo Vanni as a Miniaturist
From Rome to Siena: the Altarpiece of San Stefano alle Lizza
Giovanni di Paolo's Pizzicaiuolo Altarpiece
Reassembling a Giovanni di Paolo Triptych
Vecchietta and the Franciscan Predella: A Renaissance Artist and his Workshop