The Art of Devotion: Panel Painting in Early Renaissance Italy

by Abbott, Katherine Smith; Watson, Wendy; Rothe, Andrea; Rothe, Jeanne; Kanter, Laurence B.

• ISBN13: 9781928825067
• ISBN10: 1928825060
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-10-30
• Publisher: Univ Pr of New England

Summary

At heart a collaborative venture, the creation of early fifteenth-century panel paintings in Italy depended upon a tight network of connections between patrons, painters, woodworkers, and gilders. The product of these interactions was an object that served both as a focus for devotion, and as an emphatic statement about wealth and status. This exhibition catalogue illustrates works in ten different collections and explores how these objects were made and what they reveal to us about those who produced and owned them. Featuring artists such as Giovanni del Biondo, Giovanni dal Ponte, Gentile da Fabriano, and Lippo d'Andrea, the catalogue essays and entries explore the ways in which these works--often described as "conservative," or "late Gothic," offer a more authentic view of the early Renaissance, one that balances our notion of a time and place characterized solely by departures from tradition.

Author Biography

KATHERINE R. SMITH ABBOTT teaches in the department of the history of art and architecture and serves as associate dean of Middlebury College. ANDREA ROTHE is a private conservator who formerly worked as chief paintings conservator at the J. Paul Getty Museum. WENDY M. WATSON is the curator of the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum.

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Lenders to The Exhibition

Introduction

Circa 1410: The Face of Painting in Early Renaissance Florence

The Making and Marketing of Art in Renaissance Florence

On the Conservation of Lippo d'Andrea's Altarpiece

Catalogue of the Exhibition

Selected Bibliography

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