Marilyn Aronberg Lavin has taught the history of art at Washington
University, the University of Maryland, Yale, Princeton, and
Universita di Roma, La Sapienza. Specializing in Italian 13th16th
century painting, she is internationally known for her books and
articles on Piero della Francesca. Her other books include The
Place of Narrative: Mural Painting in Italian Churches, 4311600
AD., and Seventeenth-Century Barberini Documents and Inventories of
Art, both of which were recipients of international prizes for
distinguished scholarship. She is one of the leaders in the use of
computers and digitized imagery for research, teaching, and
publication in the history of art. This book offers a series of
case studies intended to introduce and define an important class of
fifteenth-century Italian art not previously recognized. It is
argued that the paintings and sculptures discussed were created
privately by artists for personal satisfaction and internal needs,
outside the traditional framework of patronage and commercial gain.
Since there is no direct documentation from this period of a work
being privately made, the selection presented here is necessarily
speculative. Instead, the essays focus on works by Piero della
Francesca, Mantegna, Michelangelo, Bellini, and Titian that appear
in the artists testaments, letters of refusals to sell, and
inventories showing ownership at the time of death. The task at
hand is to uncover the motivation and meaning of works of art in
which the medieval craftsman began to rise to the status of
independent artist, and the maker and the viewer confront each
other face to face for the first time.
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