Siena of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries was one of the
great cities of Europe and its artists--Duccio, Simone Martini, and
Ambrogio and Pietro Lorenzetti--were among those who reshaped the
nature and place of painting first in Italy, then across Europe.
Drawing on the extraordinary riches of Sienese archives, on early
unpublished secondary sources, and on the recent work of
historians, Hayden Maginnis situates early Sienese painters within
their society and their city and provides the first comprehensive
account of the economic, social, religious, and intellectual world
of Siena's artists.
Where did painters live? How much were they paid? What was their
social status? Were painters aware of the novel importance of
thirteenth-century optics? Were the famous Sienese painters
isolated figures, surrounded by a few secondary figures, or were
they part of a larger community? These and a host of related
questions structure Maginnis's book, which demonstrates how firmly
painters' lives were embedded in the values and customs of their
society and how important the particular character of their society
was for the patronage artists received. The World of the Early
Sienese Painter is the second volume of a trilogy Maginnis began
with Painting in the Age of Giotto (1997). The third volume will
turn from the broad social and cultural history of the present book
to a history of early Sienese painting.
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