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Item Number: 125211
Title: The Making of Assisi : The Pope, the Franciscans and the Painting of the Basilica
Author: Cooper, Donal ; Janet Robson
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9780300195712
Description: New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2013. 29cm., hardcover, 296pp., 198 illus., most in color. Summary: For a brief moment at the close of the 13th century, the town of Assisi was the focus for the two greatest powers in the Latin Church: the Roman papacy and the Franciscan Order. The election in 1288 of Nicholas IV, the first Franciscan pope, was the catalyst for the creation of frescoes of unprecedented intellectual ambition in the Basilica of San Francesco. At the heart of the new decorative scheme were twenty-eight scenes depicting the life of Saint Francis. Putting to one side the long debate about whether the Saint Francis cycle was or was not painted by Giotto, The Making of Assisi takes a fresh approach and treats the cycle as part of a larger, integrated and far-reaching programme of renewal at the Basilica.
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