Devotion by design : Italian altarpieces before 1500 /

Devotion by design : Italian altarpieces before 1500 /

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate author / creator:	National Gallery (Great Britain)
Imprint:	London : National Gallery Co. ; [New Haven, Conn.] : Distributed by Yale University Press, 2011.
Description:	128 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	National Gallery (Great Britain) -- Exhibitions. National Gallery (Great Britain) Altarpieces, Italian -- 14th century -- Exhibitions. Altarpieces, Italian -- 15th century -- Exhibitions. Panel painting, Italian -- 14th century -- Exhibitions. Panel painting, Italian -- 15th century -- Exhibitions. Polyptychs -- Italy -- Exhibitions. Christianity and art -- Catholic Church -- Exhibitions. Christianity and art -- Italy -- Exhibitions. Panel painting -- England -- London -- Exhibitions. Altarpieces, Italian. Christianity and art. Christianity and art -- Catholic Church. Panel painting. Panel painting, Italian. Polyptychs. England -- London. Italy. Exhibition catalogs.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8683551

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Varying Form of Title:	Italian altarpieces before 1500
Other authors / contributors:	Nethersole, Scott.
ISBN:	9781857095258 1857095251
Notes:	Published on the occasion of an exhibition of works chiefly from the collection of the National Gallery, London, held there, July 6-Oct. 2, 2011. Includes bibliographical references (p. 122-123).
Summary:	This book considers Italian altarpieces in the collection of the National Gallery in London and their role in the lives of people living in the Italian Peninsula between the mid-thirteenth century and the year 1500.

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Summary:	Museum visitors today usually see pre-16th-century Italian painted altarpieces exhibited alone, as single paintings. Yet this beautiful catalogue shows that these works were once part of decorative, integrated schemes, and the original experience for viewers of the paintings was significantly different from our own. Focusing on Italian altarpieces from the second half of the 13th century to the very end of the 15th, the book investigates the original functions and locations of altarpieces as well as the circumstances of their dislocations, dismantlings, and reconstructions. Regional variations are also analyzed, and the author examines altarpieces' formal and typological development, taking into account the wealth of related scholarship undertaken in the past thirty years.
Item Description:	Published on the occasion of an exhibition of works chiefly from the collection of the National Gallery, London, held there, July 6-Oct. 2, 2011.
Physical Description:	128 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 122-123).
ISBN:	9781857095258 1857095251