Description
Book SynopsisAndrew Martindale's collection of essays study secular painting history in medieval and early Renaissance Italy, emphasising evidence for secular decoration in Venice, Siena and Mantua, shedding light on a lesser-explored facet of early Italian art.
Table of ContentsPreface
Painting for Pleasure: Some Lost Fifteenth-century Secular Decorations of Northern Italy
The Problem of Guidoriccio
Heroes, Ancestors, Relatives and the Birth of the Portrait
Simone Martini and the Problem of Retirement
"There is neither Speech nor Language but their Voices are heard among them". The Enigma of Discourse concerning Art and Artists in the 12th and 13th Centuries
Mantegna's camera picta as Wall Decoration
Venice and Alexander III - Two Painted Impostures?
The Venetian Sala del Gran Consiglio and its Fourteenth-century Decoration
Additional Notes
Index
