Ritual, Gender, and Narrative in Late Medieval Italy - Anne Derbes
Fina Buzzacarini and the Baptistery of Padua
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2020Uitgever: Brepols Publishers368 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 250357968XISBN-13: 9782503579689Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Summary Ritual, Gender, and Narrative in Late Medieval Italy is the first English-language study of the baptistery of Padua and its extraordinarily rich fresco program, which opens with Genesis and closes with the Apocalypse. Remarkably, when the building was refashioned and frescoed by Giusto de' Menabuoi in the 1370s, it was a woman, Fina Buzzacarini, who funded the enterprise. In late medieval Italy, baptisteries were potent symbols of civic identity, solidarity, and pride, and towns spent lavishly on...
