This book provides a new perspective on Sienese painting after the
Black Death, asking how social, religious, and cultural change
affect visual imagery and style. Judith Steinhoff demonstrates that
Siena's artistic culture of the mid and late fourteenth century was
intentionally pluralistic, and not conservative as is often
claimed. She shows that Sienese art both before and after the Black
Death was the material expression of an artistically sophisticated
population that consciously and carefully integrated tradition and
change. Promoting both iconographic and stylistic pluralism,
Sienese patrons furthered their own goals as well as addressed the
culture's changing needs. Steinhoff presents both detailed case
studies as well as a broader view of trends in artistic practice
and patronage. She offers a new approach to interpreting artistic
style in the Trecento, arguing that artists and patrons alike
understood the potential of style as a vehicle that conveys
specific meanings.
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