Sienese Painting After the Black Death: Artistic Pluralism, Politics, and the New Art Market

Asking how social, religious, and cultural change effect visual imagery and style. Judith Steinhoff demonstrates that Siena's artistic culture of the mid- and late fourteenth century was intentionally pluralistic, and not conservative as is often claimed. She demonstrates that Sienese art both before and after the Black Death was the material expression of an artistically sophisticated population that consciously and carefully integrated tradition and change. Promoting both iconographic and stylistic pluralism, Sienese patrons furthered their own goals as well as addressed the culture's changing needs.

Author: Judith Steinhoff
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 06/02/2014
Pages: 278
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.55lbs
Size: 9.90h x 6.90w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781107686694

About the Author
Steinhoff, Judith: - Judith Steinhoff is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Houston. She has contributed to Renaissance Studies, Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschicte, and The Art Bulletin.