Sassetta: The Borgo San Sepolcro Altarpiece (Villa I Tatti Series)
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Sassetta: The Borgo San Sepolcro Altarpiece (Villa I Tatti Series)

Sassetta: The Borgo San Sepolcro Altarpiece (Villa I Tatti Series)

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Machtelt Israels (Contributor) James R. Banker (Contributor) Roberto Bellucci (Contributor) Rachel Billinge (Contributor) George Bisacca (Contributor) Ciro Castelli (Contributor) Keith Christiansen (Contributor) Roberto Cobianchi (Contributor) Donal Cooper (Contributor) Odile Cortet (Contributor)  

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Sassetta, the subtle genius from Siena, revolutionized Italian painting with an altarpiece for the small Tuscan town of Borgo San Sepolcro in 1437-1444. Originally standing some six yards high, double-sided, with a splendid gilt frame over the main altar of the local Franciscan church, it was the Rolls Royce of early Renaissance painting. But its myriad figures and scenes tempted the collectors of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and today its disassembled panels can be found in twelve museums throughout Europe and the United States. To produce this landmark volume, experts in art and general history, painting technique and conservation, woodworking, architecture, and liturgy have joined forces across the boundaries of eight different nations. A model of collaboration, it opens new windows onto the creative process of the artist as he confronted a late-medieval church at a crossroad of cultures, the miracle-working body of a holy man, and a community of Franciscan friars breathing the exhilarating air of reform. To confront such challenges, Sassetta raised the most spiritual school of early Italian art, the Sienese, to a higher level of understanding, grace, and splendor. 400 color illustrations, 250 halftones CPSIA choking or other US hazard warning - No California Proposition 65 hazard warning necessary
Machtelt Israels is Researcher in the History of Renaissance and Early Modern Art at the University of Amsterdam.
  • Contributor: Machtelt Israels
  • Imprint: I Tatti
  • ISBN13: 9780674035232
  • Number of Pages: 624
  • Packaged Dimensions: 253x334x69mm
  • Packaged Weight: 4950
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publisher: Harvard University Press
  • Release Date: 2010-01-14
  • Series: Villa I Tatti Series
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Biography: Machtelt Israels is Researcher in the History of Renaissance and Early Modern Art at the University of Amsterdam.

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