Spalliera Paintings of Renaissance Tuscany: Fables of Poets for Patrician Homes
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
- Publish date: 02/01/2009
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"All Renaissance art was functional and purpose-built for a particular task and a particular place. This book is the first sustained exploration of the spalliera, an important but overlooked type. In a learned and judicious text, the author defines what the type was, discusses its function, explores its iconography, and traces the network of connections between the paintings and the social world from which they arise. This social dimension is one of the most important achievements of the text. Without doubt this book will make a real, and much welcomed, contribution to the history of Renaissance art." --Bruce Cole, Indiana University
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