Wall painting, civic ceremony, and sacred space in early Renaissance Italy

Abstract

"Focusing on four large mural decorations created by celebrated Florentine artists between 1377 and 1484, this book investigates how mural paintings affirmed civic identities by visualizing ideas, experiences, memory, and history. It offers new insights into the motives and mechanics of patronage and artistic production."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents

"Larger, more ornate, and more seemly" : Agnolo Gaddi and the Chapel of the Holy Belt in Prato -- "A most devout place" : the Camposanto from cemetery to civic space in fourteenth century Pisa -- "Most holy and unique in the world" : Filippo de' Medici, Benozzo Gozzoli and the completion of the Camposanto in the fifteenth century -- Rome in Spoleto : Bishop Berardo Eroli, Fra Filippo Lippi, and the Coronation of the Virgin murals in the Duomo of Spoleto.