Luca Di Tomme: a Sienese Fourteenth-Century Painter[Buy it!]Painter - SHERWOOD A. FEHM, Jr.

A Sienese Fourteenth-century Painter

KORTE INHOUD

Sherwood A. Fehm, Jr., analyzes the paintings, provides ecclesiastical and communal documents pertaining to both the artist and his art, and presents a com­plete catalogue to re-create the life and to explicate the art of Luca di Tommè, the leading painter in Siena after the Black Plague of 1348. In this first full-length study of Luca di Tommè, Fehm revives a neglected yet important artist who flourished during a period previously overshadowed in art history. He identifies Luca’s achieve­ments and relates them to the rich tradi­tion of Sienese painting. Placing Luca in the fourteenth-century Italian tradition, Fehm briefly outlines the careers of the four great Sienese painters of the first half of the century: Duccio di Boninsegna, Simone Martini, and the brothers Ambrogio and Pietro Lorenzetti, the art­ists who most influenced Luca. In addition to the detailed catalogue of Luca’s works, which is divided into Ac­cepted Works, Doubtful Attributions and Shopworks, and Lost Works, Fehm estab­lishes for the fir...
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1986Uitgever: USA, southern illinois University Press, 1986221 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0809309416ISBN-13: 9780809309412

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