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Diana Norman.
Siena and the Virgin: Art and Politics in a Late Medieval City State.

Published New Haven: Yale U.P., 1999.
ISBN 0300080069;
ISBN-13: 9780300080063.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printed in Italy.
Size: 255x297x25mm.
Page count: xii,252pp, illustrated throughout, colour and monochrome.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: the usual storage wear, mild scuffs and marks etc., but overall doesn’t look heavily used.


This item £30.00
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Weight without packaging: 1907g.

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“Celebrating the Virgin Mary as both an object of religious devotion and a focus of civic pride, fourteenth-century Sienese artists established within their city a vibrant pictorial tradition…”

Contents: Feasts & fealties — Civic rituals & images; The city — The cathedral — Town hall — Patronal altars — Spedale; The Contado — Massa Marittima — San Leonardo al Lago — Montalcino — Montepulciano & Siena; Epilogue — Under the sway of the Virgin.

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