Devotion By Design: Italian Altarpieces Before 1500.

Nethersole, Scott.

ISBN 10: 1857095251 / ISBN 13: 9781857095258

Published by National Gallery Company., London., 2011

About this Item

128pp, colour illustrations. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Seller Inventory # 44354

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Devotion By Design: Italian Altarpieces Before 1500.
• Publisher: National Gallery Company., London.
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1857095251
• ISBN 13: 9781857095258
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Near Fine.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art.

About this title

Synopsis

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.