Late Medieval Italian Art and its Contexts

Donal Cooper is Associate Professor in History of Art at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Jesus College. Recent work focuses on digital visualizations to reconstruct the historic aspects of Italian church interiors, and he is Co-Investigator on the Florence 4D mapping and modelling project. Beth Williamson is Professor of Medieval Culture at the University of Bristol. She works on the religious culture of western Europe Christianity, with a focus on the forms and functions of religious imagery, and on religious belief and behaviour. Donal Cooper is Associate Professor in History of Art at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Jesus College. Recent work focuses on digital visualizations to reconstruct the historic aspects of Italian church interiors, and he is Co-Investigator on the Florence 4D mapping and modelling project. Beth Williamson is Professor of Medieval Culture at the University of Bristol. She works on the religious culture of western Europe Christianity, with a focus on the forms and functions of religious imagery, and on religious belief and behaviour.

1. Introduction: Circling Giotto
Donal Cooper and Beth Williamson
2. Holy Wood / 'sacra tavola': Saint Dominic and the Memory of Miracles in Bologna
Jessica N. Richardson
3. The Sculpted Saint: A Statue of Saint Francis in Siena
John Renner
4. Guccio di Mannaia and the Concept of a 'Franciscan' Chalice
Glyn Davies
5. 'Speculum sine macula': The Trittico di Santa Chiara in Trieste as an Object of Clarissan Devotion
Michaela Zöschg
6. The Siena Connection: A Franciscan Provincial Minister between Tuscany and Assisi at the Dawn of the Trecento
Donal Cooper
7. Simone Martini's 'Treaty with the House of Santa Fiora' in Siena's Palazzo Pubblico: Its Date and Significance
Thomas De Wesselow
8. Crisis and Charity in Fourteenth-Century Florence: Ambrogio Lorenzetti's Saint Nicholas Panels for San Procolo
Janet Robson
9. Father of Light: Giotto and the Beatific Vision in the Baroncelli Chapel
Virginia Brilliant
10. Painter-Illuminator Workshops and the Church of San Giorgio a Ruballa: The Case of Bernardo Daddi and Pacino di Bonaguida
Bryan C. Keene
11. Patterns of Holiness: A Virgin Lactans in a Franciscan context
Beth Williamson
12. A New Angle on Simone Martini's Holy Family
James Alexander Cameron
13. Artistic Appropriation, Institutional Identity and Civic Religion in Fourteenth-Century Siena: The Byzantine Treasury of the Hospital of Santa Maria della Scala
Stefania Gerevini
14. Visual Religious Education in Late Medieval Florence: Zanobi Perini, the Leggenda di Santo Tobia, and the Misericordia
Federico Botana
15. Saints and Status in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Florence
Sally J. Cornelison

Select Bibliography
Publications by Joanna Cannon
Eowyn Kerr-Di Carlo and Imogen Tedbury
Index
Tabula Gratulatoria