Art, Knowledge, and Papal Politics in Medieval Rome
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-53576-2 (ISBN)
Discovered in 1995, the remarkable thirteenth-century frescoes in the great hall, or Aula Gotica, of Rome's Santi Quattro Coronati complex are among the most important vestiges of medieval Italian painting. In this volume, Marius Hauknes offers a thorough investigation of the fresco cycle, which includes allegorical representations of the liberal arts, the virtues and vices, the seasons, the signs of the zodiac, and the months of the year. Hauknes relates these subjects to the papacy's growing interest in fields of worldly knowledge, such as music, time, astrology, and medicine. He argues that the Santi Quattro Coronati frescoes function as a large-scale, interactive encyclopedia that not only represented secular knowledge but also produced philosophical speculation, stimulating beholders to draw connections between pictorial motifs across architectural space. Integrating medieval intellectual history with close attention to multi-sensory and architectural conditions of fresco Hauknes' study offers new insights into religion, art, science, and spectatorship in medieval Italy.
Marius B. Hauknes is assistant professor of medieval art at the University of Notre Dame. He has held the Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro Membership at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princton and an Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
Introduction; 1. The Santi Quattro Coronati frescoes in context; 2. Art, learning and reflective viewing: the liberal arts at Santi Quattro Coronati; 3. Emblems of time and political power: the labors of the months at Santi Quattro Coronati; 4. Allegory, history and political eschatology: the virtues and vices at Santi Quattro Coronati; 5. Visual and material entanglement in the Anagni crypt; Conclusion; Appendix; Bibliography.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 31.01.2025 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 187 x 260 mm |
| Gewicht | 950 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-009-53576-5 / 1009535765 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-009-53576-2 / 9781009535762 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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