Description
Book SynopsisA general study of palace painting in Trecento and Quattrocento Italy. Argues for the pivotal role of early secular painting in early-modern art and theory.
Trade Review“Anne Dunlop’s Painted Palaces is a fascinating assessment of the little-known secular wall paintings that ornamented elite palaces in northern Italy from about 1250 to 1450. . . . Perhaps the attention generated by Dunlop’s groundbreaking book will result in professional photographic campaigns so that these painted palaces can take their deserved place in the canon of monuments for teaching and research.”
—Jacqueline Marie Musacchio Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies
“Anne Dunlop’s Painted Palaces provides an excellent overview of elite schemes of decoration in domestic interiors during the early Renaissance. For this, we can be very grateful, and the book fills an important lacuna in early Renaissance studies.”
—Catherine Harding Oxford Art Journal
“Painted Palaces deserves special praise for the incentives it provides for further research. As one reads, one constantly wants to know more. It should be required reading for any serious student of the Renaissance, not least because it challenges the long-held narrative about the rise of secular art.”
—Martha Dunkelman CAA Reviews
Table of ContentsContents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. “Una chasa grande, dipinta”: Palazzo Datini in Prato
2. Art, Artifice, and the Rise of the Vernacular
3. Allegory: Painted Rooms and Permeability
4. “A Certain Inborn Suffering”
5. History, Portraits, and Painting
An Epilogue: Mantegna and Mantua
Notes
Bibliography
Index
