Looking at more than two hundred Italian medieval and Renaissance mural cycles, Lavin examines—with the aid of computer technology—the "rearranged" chronologies of familiar religious stories found therein. "Like many masterpieces, Lavin's book builds upon a simple idea . . . it is possible to do a computer analysis of . . . visual narratives. . . . This is the first computer-based study of the visual arts of which I am aware that illustrates how those technologies can utterly transform the study of old master art. An extremely important book, one likely to become the most influential recent study of art of this period, The Place of Narrative is also a beautiful artifact."—David Carrier, Leonardo "Covering over a millennium and dealing with the whole of Italy, Lavin makes pioneering use of new methodology employing a computer database . . . [and] novel terminology to describe the disposition of scenes of church and chapel walls. . . . We should recognize this as a book of high seriousness which reaches out into new areas and which will fruitfully stimulate much thought on a neglected subject of very considerable significance."—Julian Gardner, Burlington Magazine

The Place of Narrative: Mural Decoration in Italian Churches, 431-1600

Arts & Photography

Lavin, Marilyn Aronberg

Religious

University of Chicago Press

"Lavin's study of the Pierro della Francesca "Flagellation" at Urbino, as befits this exquisite masterpiece, is a model of lucid and precise exposition as well as being an exciting exercise of scholarship. Informed with the intellectual rigour of Scholastic exegesis, it deserves to be placed with the classic readings of fifteenth and sixteenth century works by Erwin Panofsky and Edgar Wind."—Spectator  "[Lavin] leaves the picture more wondrous than before, a simultaneous triumph of the theological and biographical, as well as pictorial, imagination."—Rackstraw Downes, New York Times Book Review

Piero Della Francesca: The Flagellation

History & Criticism

Piero Della Francesca's Baptism of Christ (Yale Publications in the History of Art)

Yale University Press

"Lavin's study of the Pierro della Francesca "Flagellation" at Urbino, as befits this exquisite masterpiece, is a model of lucid and precise exposition as well as being an exciting exercise of scholarship. Informed with the intellectual rigour of Scholastic exegesis, it deserves to be placed with the classic readings of fifteenth and sixteenth century works by Erwin Panofsky and Edgar Wind."—Spectator "[Lavin] leaves the picture more wondrous than before, a simultaneous triumph of the theological and biographical, as well as pictorial, imagination."—Rackstraw Downes, New York Times Book Review

Piero della Francesca: The flagellation (Art in context)

Allen Lane/The Penguin Press

This beautiful series lavishly illustrates the world's major fresco cycles from the early fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries. Each book also contains a comprehensive text, a biography of the artist, a bibliography, and a glossary.

Piero Della Francesca: San Francesco, Arezzo (The Great Fresco Cycles of the Renaissance)

George Braziller, Inc.

Hard cover with dust jacket, 109 illustrations and full color plates.

Piero Della Francesca (Masters of Art Series)

PIERO

Harry N.Abrams, Inc.

The Netherlandish Canticum Canticorum is a late 15th-century blockbook customarily bound with larger, more impressive, and better known blockbooks, such as the Biblia Pauperum and the Speculum Humanae Salvationis. The author's aim is to reintroduce the Canticum Canticorum, Latin for Song of Songs, as an independent work of art of the highest caliber. Thus, the author demonstrates the Canticum Canticorum blockbook to be a major work of Early Renaissance art, full of beautiful compositions, original ideas, and an intellectual challenge to a devoted, reading public.

An Allegory of Divine Love: The Netherlandish Blockbook Canticum Canticorum (Early Modern Catholicism and the Visual Arts)

St Josephs Univ Pr

Artists Art in the Renaissance

Pindar Pr

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The Place of Narrative: Mural Decoration in Italian Churches, 431-1600

Piero Della Francesca: The Flagellation

The Place of Narrative: Mural Decoration in Italian Churches, 431-1600

Piero Della Francesca's Baptism of Christ (Yale Publications in the History of Art)

Piero della Francesca: The flagellation (Art in context)

Piero Della Francesca: San Francesco, Arezzo (The Great Fresco Cycles of the Renaissance)

Piero Della Francesca (Masters of Art Series)

An Allegory of Divine Love: The Netherlandish Blockbook Canticum Canticorum (Early Modern Catholicism and the Visual Arts)

Artists Art in the Renaissance