The Brancacci Chapel. Form, Function and Setting
Casa Editrice Leo S. Olschki
English Text.
Firenze, 2007; clothbound, pp. 240, b/w ill., cm 17x24.
series: Villa i Tatti. The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies
ISBN: 88-222-5650-6
- EAN13: 9788822256508
Subject: Religious Architecture/Art
Period: 1400-1800 (XV-XVIII) Renaissance
Places: Florence,Tuscany
Extra: Religion Art
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Weight: 0.84 kg
The essays in this cross-disciplinary volume mark a major advance in study of the famous early-Renaissance frescoes in Florence?s Brancacci chapel. Exploiting the challenge posed by a virtual absence of contemporary documentation, authors from several disciplines here mark out new parameters for analysis of chapel and frescoes, of their creators - Masolino, Masaccio and Filippino Lippi - and the relationship of the iconography to 15th-century Florentine history, piety, devotion, liturgy, theatrical performance, and contemporary workshop culture.