Politics, Civic Ideals and Sculpture in Italy C. 1240-1400

Download or read book Politics, Civic Ideals and Sculpture in Italy C. 1240-1400 written by Brendan Cassidy and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book explores how the different forms of government and political factions of the Italian states in the thirteenth and fourteenth century used sculpture to express their authority and their achievements. It was a period of radical transformation both in politics and in art; and while paintings such as Lorenzetti's fresco of Good and Bad Government in Siena could convey the ideals and ideology of the political classes to a limited audience, it was rather the more public sculpted monuments - the tombs, fountains and portals by artists such as Giovanni Pisano, Arnolfo di Cambio or Tino di Camaino - that could speak directly to the man-in-the-street. The solid marble of monuments denoted strength and power and suggested permanence, the condition to which all regimes aspired." --Book Jacket.