Devotion by design : Italian altarpieces before 1500 / Scott Nethersole.
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TextPublication details: London : National Gallery Company, 2011.Description: 1 v. : col. ill. ; 25 cmISBN: - 9781857095258 (hbk.)
- 1857095251 (hbk.)
- 709.45 NET
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard Loan | LSAD Library Main Collection | 709.45 NET (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 39002100479832 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Museum visitors today usually see pre-16th-century Italian painted altarpieces exhibited alone, as single paintings. Yet this beautiful catalogue shows that these works were once part of decorative, integrated schemes, and the original experience for viewers of the paintings was significantly different from our own.
Focusing on Italian altarpieces from the second half of the 13th century to the very end of the 15th, the book investigates the original functions and locations of altarpieces as well as the circumstances of their dislocations, dismantlings, and reconstructions. Regional variations are also analyzed, and the author examines altarpieces' formal and typological development, taking into account the wealth of related scholarship undertaken in the past thirty years.
\'Published t o accompany exhibition Devotion by Design: Italian altarpieces before 1500, the National Gallery, London 6 July- 2 October 2011.-- t.p. verso.
Focusing on Italian altarpieces from the second half of the 13th century to the very end of the 15th, this text investigates the original functions and locations of altarpieces as well as the circumstances of their dislocations, dismantlings, and reconstructions.