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The Place of Narrative

Mural Decoration in Italian Churches, 431-1600

By: Marilyn Aronberg Lavin

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The Place of Narrative

Mural Decoration in Italian Churches, 431-1600

By: Marilyn Aronberg Lavin

Looking at more than two hundred Italian medieval and Renaissance mural cycles, Lavin examines—with the aid of computer technology—the "rearranged" chronologies of familiar religious stories found therein. "Like many masterpieces, Lavin's book builds upon a simple idea . . . it is possible to do a computer analysis of . . . visual narratives. . . . This is the first computer-based study of the visual arts of which I am aware that illustrates how those technologies can utterly transform the study of old master art. An extremely important book, one likely to become the most influential recent study of art of this period, The Place of Narrative is also a beautiful artifact."—David Carrier, Leonardo "Covering over a millennium and dealing with the whole of Italy, Lavin makes pioneering use of new methodology employing a computer database . . . [and] novel terminology to describe the disposition of scenes of church and chapel walls. . . . We should recognize this as a book of high seriousness which reaches out into new areas and which will fruitfully stimulate much thought on a neglected subject of very considerable significance."—Julian Gardner, Burlington Magazine

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University of Chicago Press

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0226469603

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Artists' Art in the Renaissance

By: Marilyn Aronberg Lavin

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Artists' Art in the Renaissance

By: Marilyn Aronberg Lavin

Marilyn Aronberg Lavin has taught the history of art at Washington University, the University of Maryland, Yale, Princeton, and Universita di Roma, La Sapienza. Specializing in Italian 13th-16th century painting, she is internationally known for her books and articles on Piero della Francesca. Her other books include The Place of Narrative: Mural Painting in Italian Churches, 431-1600 AD., and Seventeenth-Century Barberini Documents and Inventories of Art , both of which were recipients of international prizes for distinguished scholarship. She is one of the leaders in the use of computers and digitized imagery for research, teaching, and publication in the history of art. This book offers a series of case studies intended to introduce and define an important class of fifteenth-century Italian art not previously recognized. It is argued that the paintings and sculptures discussed were created privately by artists for personal satisfaction and internal needs, outside the traditional framework of patronage and commercial gain. Since there is no direct documentation from this period of a work being privately made, the selection presented here is necessarily speculative. Instead, the essays focus on works by Piero della Francesca, Mantegna, Michelangelo, Bellini, and Titian that appear in the artists' testaments, letters of refusals to sell, and inventories showing ownership at the time of death. The task at hand is to uncover the motivation and meaning of works of art in which the medieval craftsman began to rise to the status of independent artist, and the maker and the viewer confront each other face to face for the first time.

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Pindar Press

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1915837014

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Piero Della Francesca

The Flagellation

By: Marilyn Aronberg Lavin

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Piero Della Francesca

The Flagellation

By: Marilyn Aronberg Lavin

Lavin's study of the Pierro della Francesca "Flagellation" at Urbino, as befits this exquisite masterpiece, is a model of lucid and precise exposition as well as being an exciting exercise of scholarship. Informed with the intellectual rigour of Scholastic exegesis, it deserves to be placed with the classic readings of fifteenth and sixteenth century works by Erwin Panofsky and Edgar Wind."—Spectator "[Lavin] leaves the picture more wondrous than before, a simultaneous triumph of the theological and biographical, as well as pictorial, imagination."—Rackstraw Downes, New York Times Book Review

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0226469581

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The Place of Narrative

Mural Decoration in Italian Churches, 431-1600

By: Marilyn Aronberg Lavin

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Vasari's Lives of the Artists

Giotto, Masaccio, Fra Filippo Lippi, Botticelli, Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, Titian

By: Giorgio Vasari,Jonathan Foster,Marilyn Aronberg Lavin

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Vasari's Lives of the Artists

Giotto, Masaccio, Fra Filippo Lippi, Botticelli, Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, Titian

By: Giorgio Vasari,Jonathan Foster,Marilyn Aronberg Lavin

One of the principal resources for study of Italian Renaissance art and artists, Vasari's Lives offers colorful, detailed portraits of the era's most representative figures. This single-volume edition spotlights 8 prominent artists.

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Courier Corporation

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0486441806

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Piero Della Francesca

The Flagellation

By: Marilyn Aronberg Lavin

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The Flagellation

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The Place of Narrative

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Artists' Art in the Renaissance

Artists' Art in the Renaissance

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Piero Della Francesca

The Place of Narrative

The Place of Narrative

Artists' Art in the Renaissance

Artists' Art in the Renaissance

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Vasari's Lives of the Artists

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