Author: Christiansen, Keith, Laurence B. Kanter and Carl Brandon Strehlke
Title: Painting in Renaissance Siena, 1420-1500
Description: New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 1988. Second printing. Softcover. Color illus. wraps; 385 pp. 100 color, 215 bw plates. Accompanied an exhibition at the Met from December 20, 1988 - March 19, 1989; The first comprehensive study in English devoted to Sienese painting published in four decades. Two introductorary essays survey fifteenth-century Sienese painting, while individual entries examine 139 key works in exhaustive detail. Text by Keith Christiansen, Laurence B. Kantor, and Carl Brandon Strehlke. Contents as follows: Foreword / by Philippe de Montebello -- Painting in Renaissance Siena / by Keith Christiansen -- The social background of Sienese art in the Renaissance / by Carl Brandon Strehlke -- The catalogue : Sassetta. Pietro di Giovanni d'Ambrogio. Master of the Osservanza. Unknown Sienese Painter. Sano di Pietro. Giovanni di Paolo. Pelligrino di Mariano. Domenico de Bartolo. Vecchietta. Giovanni di Pietro. Matteo di Giovanni. Guidoccio Cozzarelli. Girolamo da Cremona. Liberale da Verona. Benvenuto di Giovanni. Francesco di Giorgio. Neroccio de'Landi. Pietro Orioli. Luca Signorelli. Master of the Griselda Legend. Pietro di Domenico. Bernardino Fungai. VG .

Keywords: European Art ; Sienese Painting ; ; Museum Exhibitions - European Art


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