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Secondhand book for saleDiana 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
P&P inc. within the UK, signature required on delivery
(delivery outside the UK not currently available)Weight without packaging: 1907g.
“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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