Curtius Rufus, Pier Candido Decembrio and the impact of the Historiae on fifteenth-century Italian art
- Submitting institution
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The University of Warwick
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 12177
- Type
- C - Chapter in book
- DOI
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10.1484/M.AR-EB.5.115413
- Book title
- Postérités européennes de Quinte-Curce : de l'humanisme aux Lumières (XIVe-XVIIIe siècle)
- Publisher
- Brepols Publishers
- ISBN
- 9782503578255
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2018
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Non-English
- Yes
- English abstract
- Daniotti studies the innovative iconographic program of a manuscript containing Pier Candido Decembrio's translation of Curtius Rufus, the codex now in Siena, Biblioteca Comunale degli Intronati, I.VII.23, and analyzes how several passages of Curtius Rufus’s Historiae inspired fifteenth-century Florentine artists specialising in the decoration of wedding chests: Apollonio di Giovanni and Marco del Buono Giamberti. These are the first pictorial renditions of episodes from the life of Alexander favoured by painters of the centuries to follow, most importantly his meeting with the family of Darius and the ‘Queens of Persia’, to quote the title of a painting by Le Brun.