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A comprehensive survey of the surviving Italian frescoes from the end of the Middle Ages to the Renaissance and Mannerism. This book offers a descriptive and interpretive essay on all aspects of fresco painting, covering the artists and their patrons in the context of their cultural and political history.<

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Author:   Joachim Poeschke ,  Antonio Quattrone ,  Ghigo Roli
Publisher:   Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S.
Imprint:   Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S.
ISBN:  

9780789208637

ISBN 10:   0789208636
Pages:   456
Publication Date:   20 October 2005
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

PREFACE INTRODUCTION On the Perception and Effect of Images in the Age of Giotto Giotto's Fame Tradition and a New Beginning: Rome and Assisi Commissions and Themes after 1300 Patrons and Artists THE CYCLES OF PAINTINGS Assisi SAN FRANCESCO UPPER CHURCH AND LOWER CHURCH The Construction of San Francesco and the First Phase of Its Decoration Cimabue Plates 1--9 The Decoration of the Nave of the Upper Church: From Torriti to the First Appearance of Giotto The Legend of Saint Francis: Giotto Plates 10--48 Continuation of the Decoration of the Lower Church The Crossing Vault: Giotto Plates 49--59 The Passion Cycle in the Western Arm of the Lower Church Transept: Pietro Lorenzetti Plates 60--68 The Saint Martin Chapel: Simone Martini Plates 69--79 Rome SANCTA SANCTORUM Plates 80--88 Rome SANTA CECILIA IN TRASTEVERE: PIETRO CAVALLINI Plates 89--97 Padua ARENA CHAPEL (CAPPELLA DEGLI SCROVEGNI): GIOTTO Plates 98--128 Florence SANTA CROCE, PERUZZI AND BARDI CHAPELS: GIOTTO Plates 129--147 Florence SANTA CROCE, BARONCELLI CHAPEL: TADDEO GADDI Plates 148--158 Florence SANTA CROCE, BARDI DI VERNIO CHAPEL: MASO DI BANCO Plates 159--165 Siena PALAZZO PUBBLICO, SALA DEL CONSIGLIO (SALA DEL MAPPAMONDO): SIMONE MARTINI The Maesta Guidoriccio da Fogliano Plates 166--172 Siena PALAZZO PUBBLICO, SALA DEI NOVE: AMBROGIO LORENZETTI Plates 173--185 San Gimignano COLLEGIATA SANTA MARIA ASSUNTA: LIPPO MEMMI (?) Plates 186--190 Pisa CAMPOSANTO: BUFFALMACCO Plates 191--201 Florence SANTA MARIA NOVELLA, STROZZI CHAPEL: NARDO DI CIONE Plates 202--208 Florence SANTA CROCE, RINUCCINI CHAPEL: GIOVANNI DA MILANO Plates 209--215 Florence SANTA MARIA NOVELLA, FORMER CHAPTER HOUSE (SPANISH CHAPEL): ANDREA DI BONITO Plates 216--228 Florence SANTA CROCE, CHANCEL CHAPEL: AGNOLO GADDI Plates 229--235 Florence SAN MINIATO AL MONTE, SACRISTY: SPINELLO ARETINO Plates 236--242 Padua BAPTISTERY: GIUSTO DE' MENABUOI Plates 243--251 Padua SAINT GEORGE CHAPEL: ALTICHIERO Plates 252--262 Illustration Credits Inscriptions and Legends Bibliography Index

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Detailed plans and descriptions set the projects before us as never before, bringing home masterpieces that in some cases can only be seen with difficulty in out-of-the-way places. The second volume is eagerly awaited. - Chicago Tribune Italian Frescoes: The Early Renaissance captures the magnificence of religious painting between 1400 and 1470 through Roettgen's lucid text and an abundance of magnificent color photographs by Antonio Quattrone. The close-up views of famous and lesser-known sites, particularly in Tuscany, are almost as good as traveling to Italy. - Philadelphia Inquirer Perfectly illustrated and designed to give absolute clarity to a text that is a model of concision. This is the model of how all art books ought to be. - The World of Interiors The combination of Antonio Quattrone's marvelous photographs and Steffi Roettgen's brilliant text makes Italian Frescoes by far the finest book on the subject, and Signor Quattrone's color photography captures the glorious qualities of this quintessentially Italian art form. - Everett Fahy, John Pope-Hennessy Chairman, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Italian Frescoes: the High Renaissance and Mannerism The third in a series, Italian Frescoes is, by any standard, an impressive work of beauty and scholarship. From its reproductions of sweeping works on ceilings and walls to the details of a single figure, Kliemann and Rohlmann never disappoint in delighting the eye nor in broadening our knowledge about the now almost lost art of fresco. This is a gorgeous book and I highly recommend it. - Art Times Third in a series of gorgeous, lucidly written books, 'Frescoes' admirably fills the information gap between chatty guidebooks and dry scholarship. Splendid photos, details and site plans cover 20 major cycles of religious and secular 'wall painting' as the authors rightly call frescoes by Michelangelo, Raphael, Veronese, Annibale Caracci et al. - Minneapolis Star-Tribune

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Ghigo Roli is known for his photographs of fine art.

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