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Early Italian & Renaissance

Studies in Late Medieval Italian Art

by John White

24 x 17 cm 371 pp. 195 illus.
£130.00
Publication: 1984
ISBN 0 907132 11 1
Buckram Bound

In this second volume of Professor White's studies, the emphasis shifts to Italian art in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, and the major figures who were responsible for the decisive changes in painting and sculpture that were to lead on to the Renaissance. Here again, however, there is the same concern with the actual monuments. The author devotes two major studies to the reconstruction of the "original appearance of Duccio's Maestà and of Nicola Pisano's Perugia Fountain. An important new study of the physical evidence for Cimabue's work at Assisi shows the value of an understanding of the working processes involved there. This conviction that the starting point in a thorough investigation into the original appearance or development of any work of art lies in the observation of the physical evidence is central to Professor White's approach, whether this may be the arrangement of panels on a polyptych, or the scrutiny of giornate on a painted ceiling.

Contents

Preface
The Reconstruction of Nicola Pisano's Perugia Fountain
The Reliefs on the Facade of the Duomo at Orvieto
Cavallini and the Lost Frescoes in S. Paolo
The Date of the 'Legend of St. Francis' at Assisi
Cimabue and the Decorative Sequence in the Upper Church of S. Francesco, Assisi
Cimabue and Assisi: Working Methods and Art Historical Consequences
Measurement, Design and Carpentry in Duccio's Maestà, Parts I and II
Carpentry and Design in Duccio's Workshop The Boston and London Triptychs
Giotto's Use of Architecture in the Expulsion of Joachim and The Entry into Jerusalem at Padua
The Reconstruction of the Polyptych ascribed to Guariento in the Collection of the Norton Simon Foundation
Additional Notes
Index