Description
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.
Published by National Gallery Company / Distributed by Yale University Press
Exhibition Schedule:
The National Gallery, London
(07/6/11-10/02/11)
About the Author
Scott Nethersole is currently Lecturer in Italian Renaissance Art at The Courtauld Institute of Art, London. He was formerly the Harry M. Weinrebe Curatorial Assistant at the National Gallery, London.
Book Information
ISBN 9781857095258
Author Scott Nethersole
Format Hardback
Page Count 128
Imprint National Gallery Company Ltd
Publisher National Gallery Company Ltd
Weight(grams) 907g
