{"product_id":"siena-and-the-virgin-art-and-politics-in-a-late-medieval-city-state-9780300080063","title":"Siena and the Virgin: Art and Politics in a Late Medieval City State","description":"\u003cp\u003eCelebrating the Virgin Mary as both an object of religious affection and a focus of civic pride  artists of fourteenth-century Siena established for their city a vibrant tradition that continued into the early decades of the next century. Such celebratory portraits of the Virgin were also common in Sienas extensive subject territories  the contado. This richly illustrated book explores late medieval Sienese arthow it was created  commissioned  and understood by the citizens of Siena. Examining political  economic  and cultural relations between Siena and the contado  Diana Norman offers a new understanding of Marian art and its political function as an expression of civic ideology.  Drawing on extensive unpublished archives  Norman reconstructs the circumstances surrounding the commission of Marian art in the three most prestigious locations of fourteenth-century Siena: the cathedral  the Palazzo Pubblico  and the hospital of Santa Maria della Scala. She analyzes similarly important commissions in the contado towns of Massa Marittima  Montalcino  and Montepulciano. Casting new light on such topics as the original site for the reliquary tomb of Saint Cerbone  patron saint of Massa Marittima  and the identity of the patrons of the Marian frescoes in the rural hermitage of San Leonardo al Lago  the author deepens our insight into the origins and meanings of Sienese art production of the late medieval period.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67636768342069,"sku":"ByrdShop_0300080069","price":39.52,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780300080063.jpg?v=1791555717","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/siena-and-the-virgin-art-and-politics-in-a-late-medieval-city-state-9780300080063","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}