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Museum visitors today usually see pre-16th-century Italian painted altarpieces exhibited alone, as single paintings. Yet this beautiful catalogue shows that these works were once part of decorative, integrated schemes, and the original experience for viewers of the paintings was significantly different from our own.

Focusing on Italian altarpieces from the second half of the 13th century to the very end of the 15th, the book investigates the original functions and locations of altarpieces as well as the circumstances of their dislocations, dismantlings, and reconstructions. Regional variations are also analyzed, and the author examines altarpieces' formal and typological development, taking into account the wealth of related scholarship undertaken in the past thirty years.



Published by National Gallery Company / Distributed by Yale University Press


Exhibition Schedule:

The National Gallery, London
(07/6/11-10/02/11)

Devotion by Design: Italian Altarpieces before 1500

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Museum visitors today usually see pre-16th-century Italian painted altarpieces exhibited alone, as single paintings. Yet this beautiful catalogue shows that... Read more

    Publisher: National Gallery Company Ltd
    Publication Date: 23/08/2011
    ISBN13: 9781857095258, 978-1857095258
    ISBN10: 1857095251

    Number of Pages: 128

    Non Fiction , Art & Photography

    Description

    Museum visitors today usually see pre-16th-century Italian painted altarpieces exhibited alone, as single paintings. Yet this beautiful catalogue shows that these works were once part of decorative, integrated schemes, and the original experience for viewers of the paintings was significantly different from our own.

    Focusing on Italian altarpieces from the second half of the 13th century to the very end of the 15th, the book investigates the original functions and locations of altarpieces as well as the circumstances of their dislocations, dismantlings, and reconstructions. Regional variations are also analyzed, and the author examines altarpieces' formal and typological development, taking into account the wealth of related scholarship undertaken in the past thirty years.



    Published by National Gallery Company / Distributed by Yale University Press


    Exhibition Schedule:

    The National Gallery, London
    (07/6/11-10/02/11)

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