Author: NORMAN, DIANA
Title: Siena and the Virgin: Art and Politics in a Late Medieval City State
Description: New Haven and London, Yale University Press. 1999, First Edition. (ISBN: 0-300-08006-9). Hard Cover - cloth boards, 4to. 252 pages; 220 illustrations color and b&w. "Celebrating the Virgin Mary as both an object of religious devotion and a focus of civic pride, fourteenth-century Sienese artists established .. a vibrant pictorial tradition that continued into the early decades of the next century." Richly illustrated examination of late medieval Marian art and its political, economic, and cultural relations. In a paperboard slipcase. Fine/Fine.

Keywords: Art Siena Italy Politics Religion Virgin Mary Religion & Theology 0300080069


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