Due polittici per gli altari maggiori di San Domenico e di San Francesco a Città di Castello
- Submitting institution
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University of Cambridge
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 8829
- Type
- C - Chapter in book
- DOI
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- Book title
- "In nome di buon pittore": Spinello e il suo tempo: atti della giornata di studio in memoria di Luciano Bellosi: Arezzo, 8 novembre 2011
- Publisher
- Edifir
- ISBN
- 9788879707862
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2016
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- Supplementary information
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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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- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- Yes
- English abstract
- Combining unpublished archival documents, surviving fragments and iconographic evidence, the author reconstructs a major double-sided high altarpiece painted for the church of San Francesco in the Umbrian centre of Città di Castello in the years around 1400 by the artist Spinello Aretino. The altarpiece incorporated an extensive narrative cycle of Saint Francis’s life, of significant interest for the development of the saint’s iconography. Spinello’s lost altarpiece was one of the largest and most ambitious Franciscan altarpiece commissions of the late medieval period and was the prototype for Sassetta’s Sansepolcro altarpiece (1437-44), the most expensive documented polyptych from fifteenth-century Italy.