Signorelli and Fra Angelico at Orvieto - Liturgy, Poetry and a Vision of the End Time (Hardcover, New Ed)

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.

General

Imprint:	Ashgate Publishing Limited
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Histories of Vision
Release date:	December 2003
First published:	2003
Authors:	Sara Nair James
Dimensions:	246 x 174 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	224
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-7546-0813-4
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Religious buildings Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > 500 CE to 1400 > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Painting & paintings > General Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > 1400 to 1600 > Renaissance art > General
LSN:	0-7546-0813-1
Barcode:	9780754608134

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