The Power of Images: Siena, 1338

ISBN-13: 9781509512898 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 240 str.

Patrick Boucheron; Patrick Boucheron

Opis

Where can the danger be lurking? Two soldiers are huddled together, one gazing up at the sky, the other darting a sideward glance. They derive a tacit reassurance from their weapons, but they are both in their different ways alone and scared.

Recenzje

"In his elegant, vivid prose, Patrick Boucheron comes as near as anyone can to allowing images to speak. Here, Lorenzetti s paintings are not buried by texts and references: they tell us their own story, of a very direct equation between common good and communal government."
John Watts, Corpus Christi College, Oxford

"Italian communes took politics seriously. They adorned public spaces with edifying political allegories of bad and good government. Patrick Boucheron s The Power of Images elegantly discusses Siena s use of images official wall–paintings as a warning and a prompt, away from abuse of political power and towards justice for all. This is exciting history, and all too timely a read."
Miri Rubin, Queen Mary University of London

"This superbly written book invites us to reflect on both history and art, and entices us to go and experience Tuscany for ourselves" 
Livres Hebdo

"Analyzing the fresco of ′Good Government′ painted in Siena in the 14th century, Boucheron powerfully elucidates the nature of political representation."
Philosophie Magazine

Spis treści

• Acknowledgments
• Preface: The site of an ancient urgency
• 1. I thought of these images, painted for you
• 2. Nachleben. The watchful shadows
• 3. The Nine
• 4. Ambrogio Lorenzetti, famosissimo e singularissimo maestro
• 5. On each side: allegory, realism, resemblances
• 6. Esto visibile parlare: the walls speak to us
• 7. Guernica in the lands of Siena
• 8. The seductions of tyranny (what the image conceals)
• 9. Concord with its cords
• 10. With the common good as lord
• 11. What peace sees: narratives of spaces and talking bodies
• 12. Well, now you can dance
• Epilogue: Vanishing point
• Appendices
• The fresco of the Dala della Pace: silhouettes, inscriptions, identifications
• Inscriptions in the vernacular: transcription, edition and translation
• Notes
• Published sources
• Bibliography
• Picture credits
• Index

O autorze

Patrick Boucheron is Professor of History at the Collège de France