TY - BOOK ID - 133767427 TI - Simone Martini in Orvieto AU - Martini, Simone AU - Silver, Nathaniel E. AU - Israëls, Machtelt AU - Cannon, Joanna AU - Etheridge, Christopher AU - Gritt, Stephen AU - Pocobene, Gianfranco AU - Strehlke, Carl Brandon AU - Wright, Alison AU - Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum PY - 2022 SN - 9780300262247 0300262248 PB - Boston, MA : New Haven : Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Distributed by Yale University Press DB - UniCat KW - Gold-ground painting KW - Polyptychs KW - Altarpieces, Gothic KW - Christian art and symbolism KW - Art chrétien KW - Peinture au sol d'or KW - Polyptyques KW - Retables gothiques KW - Art and Design. KW - Expertising KW - Expertise KW - Martini, Simone, KW - 1300-1399 KW - Italy KW - Expertise . UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:133767427 AB - "New insights into the innovative multimedia work and early career of fourteenth-century Italian painter Simone Martini. Painter to popes, princes, and scions of Renaissance dynasties, Simone Martini (ca. 1284-1344) transformed Western painting with his groundbreaking devotional images and masterful manipulation of gold. This beautifully illustrated book highlights the astonishing novelty of his paintings in terms of their construction, multimedia techniques, and imagery. A focus of the book--the first on Simone Martini in English in over thirty years--is the work that he produced for churches in the Umbrian city of Orvieto, a papal refuge and stronghold of the Guelph political faction. The publication sheds light on Simone's early career and technical accomplishments with extended catalogue entries for three Orvieto altarpieces and a painting of private devotion, including the results of new scientific analysis for the Gardner works. Leading scholars consider Simone's patrons, artistic accomplishments, and contributions to the development of the polyptych altarpiece"-- ER -