Main entry:

Sassetta, approximately 1400-1450.

Title & Author:

Sassetta : the Borgo San Sepolcro altarpiece / edited by Machtelt Israëls.

Publication:

Florence : Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies ; Leiden : Primavera Press, 2009.

Description:

2 volumes : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 34 cm.

Series:

Villa I Tatti / the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies ; 25

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 598-611) and index.
v. I. Prologue / Joseph Connors -- Introduction / Machtelt Israëls -- I. Fortune. Sassetta a century later / Keith Christiansen ; Berenson, Sassetta, and Asian art / Carl Brandon Strehlke -- II. Church and commission. The church of San Francesco in Borgo San Sepolcro in the late Middle Ages and Renaissance / Donal Cooper and James R. Banker ; Franciscan legislation, patronage practice, and new iconography in Sassetta's commission at Borgo San Sepolcro / Roberto Cobianchi ; Painting for a preacher : Sassetta and Bernardino da Siena / Machtelt Israëls ; The conventual and observant Franciscans and Sassetta's altarpiece in San Francesco in Borgo San Sepolcro / James R. Banker -- III. Reconstruction and type. Reconstructing Sienese altarpieces : a historical and methodological review of two spectacular examples / Henk Van Os ; The reconstruction of Sassetta's Borgo San Sepolcro altarpiece / Machtelt Israëls [and others] ; Sassetta's Franciscan altarpiece at Borgo San Sepolcro : precedents and context / Christa Gardner Von Teuffel ; A Saint Francis "in un Trono" at Città di Castello : considerations on a presumed model for Sassetta's Borgo San Sepolcro altarpiece / Stefan Weppelmann ; Polyptychs without painting : Sassetta, Pietro della Francesca, and the rejection of unpainted altarpieces / Machtelt Israëls ; Sassetta's Franciscan altarpiece at Borgo San Sepolcro : a swan song? / Christa Gardner Von Teuffel -- IV. Meaning. What the friars saw : the evolution of the iconography of the Borgo San Sepolcro altarpiece and its message / Dillian Gordon ; The Franciscan genesis of Sassetta's altarpiece / Donal Cooper ; Light and shadow in Sassetta : The stigmatization of Saint Francis and the sermons of Bernardino da Siena / Koichi Toyama -- V. Technique. The construction of wooden supports of late Medieval altarpieces / Ciro Castelli ; Technical evidence for the construction of the Predella of Sassetta's Borgo San Sepolcro altarpiece in the panels of the Passion of Christ in the Detroit Institute of Arts / Serena Urry ; Technical study of the panels of Sassetta's Borgo San Sepolcro altarpiece in French collections / Elisabeth Ravaud and Myriam Eveno ; "Cum suis debitis proportionibus" : perspective and geometry in Sassetta's Borgo San Sepolcro altarpiece / Roberto Bellucci and Cecilia Frosinini ; Sassetta's painting technique : the example of the seven panels of the National Gallery in London / Rachel Billinge ; Art in the making : Sassetta and the Borgo San Sepolcro altarpiece / Roberto Bellucci and Cecilia Frosinini.
v. II. VI. Technical catalogue. Predella -- front. The agony in the garden / Serena Urry ; The betrayal of Christ / Serena Urry ; The procession to Calvary / Serena Urry -- Predella -- back. The Blessed Ranieri shows the friars the miser of Citerna's soul carried to Hell by demons / Elisabeth Ravaud [and others] ; The apparition of the Blessed Ranieri to a Cardinal / Babette Hartwieg ; The liberation of the prisoners of Florence / Elisabeth Ravaud [and others] -- Main tier -- front. Virgin and child enthroned with six angels / Elisabeth Ravaud [and others] ; The Blessed Ranieri of Borgo San Sepolcro / Roberto Bellucci, Ciro Castelli, Cecilia Frosinini, and Machtelt Israëls ; Saint John the Baptist / Roberto Bellucci, Ciro Castelli, Cecilia Frosinini, and Machtelt Israëls ; Saint John the Evangelist / Elisabeth Ravaud [and others] ; Saint Anthony of Padua / Elisabeth Ravaud [and others] -- Main tier -- back. Saint Francis in glory / Roberto Bellucci, Ciro Castelli, Cecilia Frosinini, and Machtelt Israëls ; Saint Francis meets a knight poorer than himself and Saint Francis's vision of the founding of the Franciscan Order / Rachel Billinge ; Saint Francis renounces his earthly father / Rachel Billinge ; Saint Francis before the Pope : the granting of the indulgence of the Portiuncula / Rachel Billinge ; The stigmatization of Saint Francis / Rachel Billinge ; The wolf of Gubbio / Rachel Billinge ; Saint Francis before the Sultan / Rachel Billinge ; Mystic marriage of Saint Francis / Elisabeth Ravaud and Myriam Eveno ; The funeral of Saint Francis and verification of the Stigmata / Rachel Billinge -- Upper tier -- front. Saint Francis before Christ on the cross / Christa Gardner Von Teuffel and Machtelt Israëls -- Upper tier -- back. Annunciation / George Bisacca ; Saint Augustine / Machtelt Israëls -- Piers -front. Saint Lawrence / Roberto Bellucci, Ciro Castelli, Cecilia Frosinini, and Machtelt Israëls ; Saint Stephen / Roberto Bellucci, Ciro Castelli, Cecilia Frosinini, and Machtelt Israëls ; Saint Christopher / Roberto Bellucci, Ciro Castelli, Cecilia Frosinini, and Machtelt Israëls -- Piers -- back. Saint Matthew / Machtelt Israëls -- VII. Appendices. Appendix of documents relating to the high altarpiece, the high altar and the tomb of the Blessed Ranieri in the Church of San Francesco in Borgo San Sepolcro / James R. Banker ; A note on the finances of Sassetta's Borgo San Sepolcro altarpiece / James R. Banker and Machtelt Israëls ; Appendix A of documents to the chapter by Donal Cooper and James R. Banker / James R. Banker and Donal Cooper ; Chart of the use of punch marks in Sassetta's Borgo San Sepolcro altarpiece / Roberto Bellucci -- Glossary.

Summary:

"To produce this landmark volume, experts in art and general history, painting technique and conservation, woodworking, architecture, and liturgy have joined forces across the boundaries of eight different nations. A model of collaboration, it opens new windows onto the creative process of the artist as he confronted a late-medieval church at a crossroad of cultures, the miracle-working body of a holy man, and a community of Franciscan friars breathing the exhilarating air of reform."--Jacket.

ISBN:

9780674035232 (Harvard University Press ; alk. paper)
0674035232 (Harvard University Press ; alk. paper)
9789059970724 (Primavera Press)
9059970721 (Primavera Press)

Subject:

Sassetta, approximately 1400-1450. Borgo San Sepolcro altarpiece.
Sassetta, approximately 1400-1450 Criticism and interpretation.
Sassetta, approximately 1400-1450 Individual works Borgo San Sepolcro altarpiece.
Sassetta, approximately 1400-1450.
Apollodoros, approximately 394 B.C.-. Borgo San Sepolcro altarpiece.
Altarpieces, Italian Italy Sansepolcro.
Retables italiens Italie Sansepolcro.
Altarpieces, Italian.
Italy Sansepolcro.

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Added entries:

Israëls, Machtelt.
Villa I Tatti (Series) ; 25.

Borgo San Sepolcro altarpiece

Holdings:

Location: Library main 266410
Call No.: BIB 198211
Copy: slipcase
Status: Available

Location: Library main 266408
Call No.: BIB 198211
Copy: v. 1
Status: Available

Location: Library main 266409
Call No.: BIB 198211
Copy: v. 2
Status: Available