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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Altarpieces"”.
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Choir Screens and Digital Technologies: Reconstructing Church Interiors and Mendicant Altarpieces in Medieval Pisa
This thesis reconstructs the interior spaces of mendicant churches from medieval Pisa, particularly utilising digital technologies to study destroyed choir screens. Known as *tramezzo* screens, they played a fundamental role in the formation of sacred space, serving to articulate various liturgical …
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Tilman Riemenschneider's monochrome sculpture: an examination of its origin
… Münnerstadt, Rothenberg and Creglingen altarpieces. The discussion which combines new observations with previous scholar’s theories, examines the nature of the monochrome glaze and Riemenschneider’s carving of detailed sculptural surfaces to enhance the monochrome altarpieces; places …
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ΜΙΧΑΗΛ ΔΑΜΑΣΚΗΝΟΣ (1530/35-1592/93). ΣΥΜΒΟΛΗ ΣΤΗ ΜΕΛΕΤΗ ΤΗΣ ΖΩΓΡΑΦΙΚΗΣ ΤΟΥ
… OF HIS PROFESSION, THE COMMISSIONS OF LARGE ALTARPIECES (PALE D'ALTARE) FOR PROMINENT CATHOLIC CHURCHES IN CANDIA, THE DEMAND AND DISSEMINATION OF HIS DRAWINGS. (SHORTENED)
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Peripheral backwater or innovative upland? : patterns of Franciscan patronage in renaissance Perugia, c. 1390 - 1527
… upon foreign painters to provide its major altarpieces. A century later, this situation had been reversed with Perugino, Pintoricchio and Raphael all active in the city. By investigating commissioning patterns III Franciscan establishments in Perugia from 1390 to c.1527, this thesis …
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Beyond painting : Carlo Crivelli’s celestial fictions
… The first part is a case study of Crivelli’s altarpieces for the town of Ascoli Piceno, which serves to underpin his practice in geographic terms. It investigates the dialogues Crivelli’s paintings pose with local examples of goldsmiths’ and textile art, festive customs, and the spectatorship …
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Reassembling the Sacred: The Murano Master and the Illuminated Choir Books of Camaldolese House of San Mattia di Murano
… of monumental painting, particularly frescos and altarpieces, as a means of probing the influences of other media on the work of the Murano Master. Ultimately, this study not only offers the first-ever reconstruction of the San Mattia choir books, but it also provides new insights into their …
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Displacement and Reconfiguration: The Effects of the Florentine Guasto of 1529 on Devotional Spaces and Networks of Artistic Patronage
… thematic chapters focussing respectively on altarpieces, relics, and architectural fragments, the thesis integrates traditional art historical methods with approaches from Digital Art History – in particular non-invasive archaeological surveying to investigate underground remains of …
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Neighbourhood and Identity in Renaissance Florence: Artistic Patronage at Santa Trinita and San Pancrazio
… works of art – broadly defined to include altarpieces, sculptures, frescoes, tombs, and liturgical furnishings – commissioned for the two Florentine, Vallombrosan churches of Santa Trinita and San Pancrazio, specifically in light of the geographical proximity of these two churches within …
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Recovering the lost context of the Roverella altarpiece by Cosmè Tura. The Olivetan church of San Giorgio fuori le mura in Ferrara
This thesis aims to recover the original context of the Pala Roverella by Cosmè Tura, rightly considered the apex of the Ferrarese figurative culture of the late Quattrocento. The Olivetan conventual church of San Giorgio fuori le mura in Ferrara, the ancient cathedral of Ferrara, has been so far …
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Holy Blood, Holy Cross: Architecture and Devotion in the Parochial Complex of Rothenburg ob der Tauber
parochial complex in Rothenburg ob der Tauber This dissertation explores the spatiality of the and the dynamic interrelation of architecture, figural art, and devotional practice. Among the spaces of the parish church of St. Jakob, the neighboring charnel-house chapel of St. Michael, and the urban …
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Domenico Veneziano and his public commissions in Florence
This thesis is a monographic study of the life of Domenico Veneziano (†1461) and his Florentine public works. It aims both to bring the study of Veneziano’s fragmentary oeuvre up to date and to correct the persistent and prevailing historiographic tendency to interpret his painting within a …
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The Artistic Patronage of the Augustinian Friars in Central Italy (1256-c. 1370)
Since the inception of Renaissance scholarship in the late 1800s, the mendicant orders of friars – above all the Franciscans – have been considered pivotal for the artistic and urban renewal underway in Italy from the 1200s onwards. This dissertation provides the first comprehensive study of the …