Piété et commande d'œuvres d'art après la Peste noire - article ; n°3 ; vol.51, pg 551-573

Samuel K.Cohn

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Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales - Année 1996 - Volume 51 - Numéro 3 - Pages 551-573
Piety and the Demand for Art after the Black Death. COHN. From over 500 artistic commissions found scattered through thousands of last wills and testaments in Tuscany and Umbria, this paper draws new conclusions about art production after the Black Death of 1348. The notable disturbances in painting magisterially discussed by Miliard Meiss and other art historians, I argue, were not the results of new waves of pessimism spawned by the plague's unprecedented mortalities. Rather, the opposite was the case. With the recurrence of plague the late Trecento patricians and plebeians alike broke from the grip of mendicant piety and sought out new ways to memorialize themselves and, more importantly, their male lineages. This flood of new patrons to the art market conditioned new workshop practices, leading to that strict uniformity and regimentation of figures that Meiss and others have interpreted as a return to the Dugento.
23 pages
Source : Persée ; Ministère de la jeunesse, de l’éducation nationale et de la recherche, Direction de l’enseignement supérieur, Sous-direction des bibliothèques et de la documentation.

Sujets

• Sociologie, société et politique

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• Publié par: ANNALES_D-HISTOIRE_ECONOMIQUE_ET_SOCIALE
• Publié le: 01 janvier 1996
• Nombre de lectures: 48
• Langue: Français
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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