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Sara Nair James - Signorelli and Fra Angelico at Orvieto, Inbunden

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Signorelli and Fra Angelico at Orvieto

Liturgy, Poetry and a Vision of the End Time

Av Sara Nair James

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Built in 1290, the cathedral at Orvieto, Italy, is a masterpiece of Italian gothic architecture. The decoration of the Cappella Nuova, commenced by Fra Angelico in 1447 and magnificently completed by Luca Signorelli in 1499 and 1504, displays an awe-inspiring Last Judgement and Apocalypse and, below it, scenes from Dante and classical literature. Drawing on years of detailed research into the history of the chapel, Sara Nair James identifies Signorelli's theological advisors as a group of Dominican scholars, known as the 'Masters of the Sacred Page of this city'. She presents the decoration as an integrated whole, a program complex in iconography, message, source material and theory and, through a detailed response to Dante's Divine Comedy and a moralized reading of classical legends, explains how the events of the end-time join the literary narratives to form a sermon on salvation through penance. The book is not simply a work of traditional iconography, explaining the stories behind the pictures. It is an important study in the theory and techniques of the visual representation of religious belief and its reception by the laity. The detailed illustration includes many photographs taken after the restoration of the chapel in 1996.
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Sara Nair James, Mary Baldwin College, Virginia, USA

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'Signorelli and Fra Angelico at Orvieto is the single best overall account of Signorelli's great work in the Cappella Nuova in the cathedral of Orvieto. Exceptional in its breadth and ease of explanation, this book is the complete study of the subject to date, giving the reader a guide through previous scholarship as well as an implicit summary of all other major interpretations.' Paul Barolsky, University of Virginia 'Sara James's well-conceived, well-documented and well-argued volume is the first study of the chapel to recover and articulate in an exhaustive, coherent fashion the original, long-forgotten religious programme.' Ecclesiastical History 'James's volume must be considered the indispensable guide of first recourse for any future study of this Renaissance jewel of a chapel.' Ecclesiastical History 'Sara Nair James's well researched, stimulating, and sometimes provocative study... perceptive study...' Brian Tovey, The Art Newspaper '... a useful contribution to Signorelli scholarship.' Barnaby Nygren, Renaissance Quarterly

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