The Franciscans and Art Patronage in Late Medieval Italy

by Louise Bourdua

• ISBN13: 9780521821582
• ISBN10: 0521821584
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-02-09
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Louise Bourdua examines how Franciscan church decoration developed between 1250 and 1400 by focusing on three important churches. She argues that local Franciscan friars were more interested in their personal conception of artistic programs than following models of decoration issued officially from the mother church at Assisi. Lay patrons also had considerable input into the decoration programs. Bourdua demonstrates how archival documentation and art can be combined to extend our understanding of the Franciscan art programs.

Table of Contents

1. The Franciscans, poverty, property and benefaction

2. San Fermo Maggiore, Verona: a northern response to Assisi?

3. San Lorenzo in Vicenza: the friars, the donor, the procurators and the artist

4. Sant'Antonio in Padua.