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Paperback / softback. New. The first monograph on the Vita Humana cycle at Tre Fontane, this book includes an overview of the medieval history of the Roman Cistercian abbey and its architecture, as well as a consideration of the political and cultural standing of the abbey both within Papal Rome and within the Cistercian order. Furthermore, it considers the commission of the fresco cycle, the circumstances of its making, and its position within the art historical context of the Roman Duecento. Examining the unusual blend of images in the Vita Humana cycle, this study offers a more nuanced picture of the iconographic repertoire of medieval art. Since the discovery of the frescoes in the 1960s, the iconographic programme of the cycle has remained mysterious, and an adequate analysis of the Vita Humana cycle as a whole has so far been lacking. Kristin B. Aavitsland covers this gap in the scholarship on Roman art circa 1300, and also presents the first interpretative discussion of the frescoes that is…
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Imagining the Human Condition in Medieval Rome: The Cistercian fresco cycle at Abbazia delle Tre Fontane Paperback - 2017
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- Title Imagining the Human Condition in Medieval Rome: The Cistercian fresco cycle at Abbazia delle Tre Fontane
- Author Kristin B. Aavitsland
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 360
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Routledge
- Date 2017-03-08
- Features Bibliography
- ISBN 9781138273078 / 1138273074
- Weight 1.34 lbs (0.61 kg)
- Dimensions 9.69 x 6.85 x 0.77 in (24.61 x 17.40 x 1.96 cm)
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- Chronological Period: Medieval (500-1453) Studies
- Interdisciplinary Studies: Medieval (500-1453) Studies
- Dewey Decimal Code 751.730
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