1994, ISBN: 0810936755

Gebundene Ausgabe

[EAN: 9780810936751], [SC: 21.99], [PU: Harry N. Abrams Publishers, New York], ITALIA DAVID FINN LAUDESI, Translated from the German by Gerald Williams. Photographs by David Finn. Design:… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780810936751], [SC: 21.99], [PU: Harry N. Abrams Publishers, New York], ITALIA DAVID FINN LAUDESI, Translated from the German by Gerald Williams. Photographs by David Finn. Design: Samuel N. Antupit & Maria L. Miller. Jacket front: 'The assumption of the Virgin'. The tabernacle of the Madonna in the Church of Orsanmichele in Florence is one of the great monuments of Gothic art. Commissioned in 1349 by the Laudesi, a society devoted to the cult of the Virgin, it was to be a magnificent statement of Florentine piety, a marble shrine encrusted with mosaics and sculpture worthy of the wealth and the artistic heritage of the city (finished 1359). Contents: I). Orsanmichele. II). The patron and the artist of the existing tabernacle. III). Orgagna's tabernacle as architecture. IV). Form and meaning. V). The sculpture as art. VI). Commentaries on the plates. With: four schematics of the tabernacle, selected bibliography and index. 125 illustrations, including 17 plates in full color. Andrea di Cione di Arcangelo (c. 1308 - 1368), better known as Orcagna, was an Italian painter, sculptor, and architect active in Florence. A student of Andrea Pisano as well as Giotto di Bondone. 176 pag. Size: 32cmx23,5cm, Books<

1994, ISBN: 0810936755

Gebundene Ausgabe

[EAN: 9780810936751], [PU: Harry N. Abrams Publishers, New York], ITALIA DAVID FINN LAUDESI, Translated from the German by Gerald Williams. Photographs by David Finn. Design: Samuel N. An… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780810936751], [PU: Harry N. Abrams Publishers, New York], ITALIA DAVID FINN LAUDESI, Translated from the German by Gerald Williams. Photographs by David Finn. Design: Samuel N. Antupit & Maria L. Miller. Jacket front: 'The assumption of the Virgin'. The tabernacle of the Madonna in the Church of Orsanmichele in Florence is one of the great monuments of Gothic art. Commissioned in 1349 by the Laudesi, a society devoted to the cult of the Virgin, it was to be a magnificent statement of Florentine piety, a marble shrine encrusted with mosaics and sculpture worthy of the wealth and the artistic heritage of the city (finished 1359). Contents: I). Orsanmichele. II). The patron and the artist of the existing tabernacle. III). Orgagna's tabernacle as architecture. IV). Form and meaning. V). The sculpture as art. VI). Commentaries on the plates. With: four schematics of the tabernacle, selected bibliography and index. 125 illustrations, including 17 plates in full color. Andrea di Cione di Arcangelo (c. 1308 - 1368), better known as Orcagna, was an Italian painter, sculptor, and architect active in Florence. A student of Andrea Pisano as well as Giotto di Bondone. 176 pag. Size: 32cmx23,5cm, Books<