Ambrogio Lorenzetti: Allegory of Good Government: Commune of Siena

This beautiful series lavishly illustrates the world's major fresco cycles from the early fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries. Each book also contains a comprehensive text, a biography of the artist, a bibliography, and a glossary. ...more

This interdisciplinary study explores the role of art within the growth of the cult of civic saints in 14th-century Italy. It focuses on three versions of the story of Margherita of Cortona narrated on a panel painting, in her tomb reliefs, and in the extensive fresco cycle that once decorated ...more

Articles: "The Christchild as Devotional Image in Medieval Italian Sculpture: A Contibution to Ambrogio Lorenzetti Studies" by Ursula Schlegel; "The Macchiaioli: Effect and Expression in Nineteenth-Century Florentine Painting" by Norma F. Broude; "An Apocalypse Manuscript in Paris: B.N. MS Lat. 10474" by George Henderson; "Notes on Jacopino del Conte" by ...more