Giotto and His Publics: Three Paradigms of Patronage (The Bernard Berenson Lectures on the Italian Renaissance) (The Bernard Berenson Lectures on the Italian Renaissance Delivered at Villa I Tatti)

by JulianGardner (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2011

  $76.47

  This probing analysis of three of Giotto's major works and the patrons who commissioned them goes beyond the cliches of Giotto as the founding figure of western painting. It traces the interactions between Franciscan friars and powerful bankers and illuminates the complex interactions between mercantile wealth and the iconography of poverty.