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Signorelli and Fra Angelico at Orvieto - Liturgy, Poetry and a Vision of the End Time (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Signorelli and Fra Angelico at Orvieto - Liturgy, Poetry and a Vision of the End Time (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Histories of Vision
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Built in 1290, the cathedral at Orvieto, Italy, is a masterpiece of
Italian gothic architecture. The decoration of the Cappella Nuova,
commenced by Fra Angelico in 1447 and magnificently completed by
Luca Signorelli in 1499 and 1504, displays an awe-inspiring Last
Judgement and Apocalypse and, below it, scenes from Dante and
classical literature. Drawing on years of detailed research into
the history of the chapel, Sara Nair James identifies Signorelli's
theological advisors as a group of Dominican scholars, known as the
'Masters of the Sacred Page of this city'. She presents the
decoration as an integrated whole, a program complex in
iconography, message, source material and theory and, through a
detailed response to Dante's Divine Comedy and a moralized reading
of classical legends, explains how the events of the end-time join
the literary narratives to form a sermon on salvation through
penance. The book is not simply a work of traditional iconography,
explaining the stories behind the pictures. It is an important
study in the theory and techniques of the visual representation of
religious belief and its reception by the laity. The detailed
illustration includes many photographs taken after the restoration
of the chapel in 1996.
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