Ladis Andrew. Studies in Italian Art

Pindar Press, 2001. — 457 p.Andrew Ladis is Franklin Professor of Art History at the University of Georgia. Over the course of the last twenty years he has written extensively on Italian art. In addition to books on Taddeo Gaddi and on the Brancacci Chapel, he has made notable contributions to the study of early Italian painting and sculpture with essays on such figures as Giovanni Pisano, Giotto, Jacopo del Casentino, Ambrogio Lorenzetti, and Niccolò di Tommaso.But the range of his interests, made apparent by this collection, extends far beyond fourteenth-century Florence and Siena to encompass Tuscan painting of the fifteenth century, Renaissance maiolica, the writings of Giorgio Vasari, biography, and modern historiography. Further, the assembled essays and book reviews embrace a wide array of art historical problems, such as connoisseurship, patronage, workshop procedure, and the relationship between form and meaning. Of particular note is a major interpretive essay on one of the key monuments of the Renaissance, the mural decoration of the Brancacci Chapel painted by Masaccio, Masolino, and Filippino Lippi. Appearing here in revised form, this study is newly accompanied by a copious number of illustrations, including some never before published.Preface
Giovanni Pisano: Unfinished Business in Siena
The Velluti Chapel
An Early Fourteenth-century Triptych in Memphis and Florentine Painting in the Glow of Duccio
The Legend of Giotto’s Wit and the Arena Chapel
An Old Picture in Florence
Immortal Queen and Mortal Bride: The Marian Imagery of Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s Cycle at Montesiepi
A High Altarpiece for San Giovanni Fuorcivitas in Pistoia and Hypotheses about Niccolò di Tommaso
Antonio Veneziano and the Representation of Emotions
An Order for Drawings after Agnolo Gaddi’s True Cross Cycle in Florence
The Reflective Memory of a Late Trecento Painter: Speculations on the Origin and Development of the Master of San Martino Mensola
The Death of Giovanni d’Ambrogio
Salvation and Vision in the Brancacci Chapel
‘Two Nude Figures by Masaccio’ and the Importance of Being Earnest
Sources and Resources: The Lost Sketchbooks of Giovanni di Paolo
The Music of Devotion: Image, Voice and the Imagination in a Madonna of Humility by Domenico di Bartolo
Benvenuto di Giovanni at Sixteen
Perugino and the Wages of Fortune
Ornatissimi Vasi: Italian Maiolica and the Renaissance
Richard Offner: the Unmaking of a Connoisseur
Book Reviews
Additional Notes
Index