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| Margherita
of Cortona and the Lorenzetti
Sienese Art and the Cult of a Holy Woman in Medieval
Tuscany
Joanna Cannon and André Vauchez
1998 | 8-1/2 x 11 inches
Art History, History - European
Hardback:
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ISBN: 978-0-271-01756-3
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| Margherita
of Cortona and the Lorenzetti is an interdisciplinary study that
explores the role of art within the growth of the cult of civic saints
in fourteenth-century Italy. It focuses on three versions of the story
of Margherita of Cortona narrated on a panel painting, in her tomb
reliefs, and in the extensive fresco cycle that once decorated her
burial church and whose design is here attributed to Pietro and Ambrogio
Lorenzetti. These images present an intriguing contrast with the text
of Margherita's Legenda, compiled by her Franciscan confessor,
which primarily portrays the intensity of her spiritual life, her
asceticism, and her visions.
The three visual cycles together provide a sequence that demonstrates
the changing significance of Margherita for the people of Cortona
in the fifty years following her death. The role of that art—predominantly
Sienese in workmanship—in shaping medieval perceptions of the saint
is also considered. Profuse illustrations, much of them from new
photographs specially made for this book, forms integral part of
the argument.
Margherita of Cortona and the Lorenzetti introduces an important
group of works into the discussion of later medieval art and spirituality
and demonstrates the value of visual evidence for our knowledge
and understanding of civic religion and religious experience, especially
among the laity, in the Italy of the communes. |
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Joanna
Cannon is a Lecturer in the History of Art at the Courtauld
Institute of Art, University of London.
André
Vauchez is Director of the École Francaise de Rome.
He is the author of several books, including Sainthood in the
Later Middle Ages (Cambridge, 1997) and The Laity in the
Middle Ages: Religious Beliefs and Devotional Practices, translated
by M. J. Schneider (Notre Dame, 1996). |
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