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This is an interesting and well-written examination of the late thirteenth-and early fourteenth-century fresco cycles in the Pallazzo Communale of San Gimignano. [C. Jean Campbell] very convincingly places the paintings decorating the Council Hall and adjoining chamber within the context of contemporary lyric poetry and chivalric society. . . . [T]his is a welcome book which opens new perspectives on secular decorative programmes in late medieval Italy. --Burlington Magazine

This is an interesting and well-written examination of the late thirteenth-and early fourteenth-century fresco cycles in the Pallazzo Communale of San Gimignano. [C. Jean Campbell] very convincingly places the paintings decorating the Council Hall and adjoining chamber within the context of contemporary lyric poetry and chivalric society. . . . [T]his is a welcome book which opens new perspectives on secular decorative programmes in late medieval Italy. -- Burlington Magazine

This is an interesting and well-written examination of the late thirteenth-and early fourteenth-century fresco cycles in the Pallazzo Communale of San Gimignano. [C. Jean Campbell] very convincingly places the paintings decorating the Council Hall and adjoining chamber within the context of contemporary lyric poetry and chivalric society. . . . [T]his is a welcome book which opens new perspectives on secular decorative programmes in late medieval Italy. This is an interesting and well-written examination of the late thirteenth-and early fourteenth-century fresco cycles in the Pallazzo Communale of San Gimignano. [C. Jean Campbell] very convincingly places the paintings decorating the Council Hall and adjoining chamber within the context of contemporary lyric poetry and chivalric society. . . . [T]his is a welcome book which opens new perspectives on secular decorative programmes in late medieval Italy. -- Burlington Magazine

This is an interesting and well-written examination of the late thirteenth-and early fourteenth-century fresco cycles in the Pallazzo Communale of San Gimignano. [C. Jean Campbell] very convincingly places the paintings decorating the Council Hall and adjoining chamber within the context of contemporary lyric poetry and chivalric society. . . . [T]his is a welcome book which opens new perspectives on secular decorative programmes in late medieval Italy.

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C. Jean Campbell is Associate Professor in the Department of Art History at Emory University in Atlanta.

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