Picturing the City in Medieval Italian Painting

Felicity Ratté is a professor of art and architectural history at Emerson College in Boston. She teaches from the ancient to the renaissance periods, mostly focusing on the cultures of Europe and the Middle East. Her work currently focuses on the medieval and early modern built environment and its representation.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments     List of Illustrations      Introduction      1. Rome Rebuilt: Architectural Imagery and the Revival of Medieval Rome      “Reconstructing” Medieval Rome and Its Art      The Sancta Sanctorum and the Image of Rome      Thirteenth-Century Restoration of St. Paul’s and the Pilgrim Experience      The Portico at St. Peter’s      The Artistic Environment in Rome and Beyond at the End of the Thirteenth Century      Stylistic Diversity in Thirteenth-Century Rome      2. Byzantium Bypassed: Architectural Images and the Rejection of the Maniera Greca c. 1300      The Arena and the Kariye Compared      Italian and Byzantine Artistic Currents and Interchange      Inventing the “Maniera Greca” Relations between Byzantium and Italy, Artistic and Otherwise      3. Picturing Places: Trecento Painting and the Emergence of the “Architectural Portrait”      The Pilgrim Experience at Assisi      Memory Techniques and the Architectural Portraits      Assisi, Rome and Pilgrimage in the Late Thirteenth Century      Changes in Portraiture Form in the Fourteenth Century      Conclusion      4. The Celebrated City: Civic Ritual and the Language of Architectural Imagery, 1300 to 1340      Images of Architecture and Real Buildings      Continued Presence of Conventional Ways of Representing Architecture      Ritual Life in Early Trecento Florence and Siena      The Symbolic Role of Architecture in Ritual Life      5. Crisis and Convention: Change in Architectural Imagery in the Second Half of the Fourteenth Century      Changes in Images of Architecture      Civic Experience in the Second Half of the Century      Conclusion      Chapter Notes      Bibliography      Index