Italian Altarpieces, 1250-1550: Function and Design

1994 Clarendon large format hardcover edition. Some reading wear, foxing to edge else good condition. Contents: 1 Altars, Altarpieces, and Art History: Legislation and Usage; 2 The Creation, Meaning, and Audience of the Early Sienese Polyptych: Evidence from the Friars; 3 Sienese Quattrocento Painting in the Service of Spiritual Propaganda; 4 The Social Status of Patronage and its Impact on Pictorial Language in Fifteenth-Century Siena; 5 The Bellini, the Vivarini, and the Beginnings of the Renaissance Altarpiece in Venice; 6 Hangings, Curtains, and Shutters of Sixteenth-Century Lombard Altarpieces; 7 Commission and Design in Central Italian Altarpieces c.1450–1550; and 8 The Altarpiece in the Bassano Workshop: Patronage, Contracts, and Iconography.