Late medieval Italian art and its contexts : essays in honour of Professor Joanna Cannon

Joanna Cannon's scholarship and teaching have helped shape the historical study of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Italian art; this essay collection by her former students is a tribute to her work. The essays collected here form a tribute to Joanna Cannon, whose scholarship and teaching have done so much to shape the historical study of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Italian art. Her teaching lies at the heart of this book, as its chapters are all written by those who gained their doctorates under her supervision. The reach of her interests and expertise is also reflected in its range of subjects. The book is unified by its concentration on Italian art, history, and material culture, spanning the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries; but within that scope the individual essays focus on an impressive variety of subjects, across many media, including panel painting, wall painting, architecture, sculpture, metalwork, manuscripts, and gilded glass. Ranging across Italy, from Bologna, to Siena, to Assisi, to Florence, they address key themes in the field, such as artistic patronage, sainthood and sanctity, the visual culture of the mendicant orders, devotional practice, and civic religion. Some essays bring fresh approaches to familiar material (Ambrogio Lorenzetti's Saint Nicholas panels, the frescoes in Siena's Palazzo Pubblico, Simone Martini's Holy Family), while others illuminate objects and images that are less well known (the central panel of the Santa Chiara triptych in Trieste, and the statue of Saint Francis in San Francesco in Siena). As a collection they combine to make an important contribution to the study of Early Italian art, seeking thereby to echo the extraordinary contribution of Joanna Cannon's own work to that field. Late Medieval Italian Art and its Contexts: Essays in Honour of Professor Joanna Cannon 1 Contents 6 Illustrations 10 Contributors 20 Acknowledgements 24 Abbreviations 26 Introduction 28 Holy Wood / ‘sacra tavola’: Saint Dominic and the Memory of Miracles in Bologna 38 The Sculpted Saint: A Statue of Saint Francis in Siena 60 Guccio di Mannaia and the Concept of a ‘Franciscan’ Chalice 78 ‘Speculum sine macula’: The Trittico di Santa Chiara in Trieste as an Object of Clarissan Devotio 96 The Siena Connection: A Franciscan Provincial Minister between Tuscany and Assisi 116 Simone Martini’s ‘Treaty with the House of Santa Fiora’ in Siena’s Palazzo Pubblico 138 Crisis and Charity in Fourteenth-Century Florence 160 Father of Light: Giotto and the Beatific Vision in the Baroncelli Chapel 186 Painter-Illuminator Workshops and the Church of San Giorgio a Ruballa 208 Patterns of Holiness: A Virgin Lactans in a Franciscan Context 230 A New Angle on Simone Martini’s Holy Family 256 Artistic Appropriation, Institutional Identity, and Civic Religion in Fourteenth-Century Siena 276 Visual Religious Education in Late Medieval Florence 298 Saints and Status in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Florence 316 Select Bibliography 334 Publications by Joanna Cannon 382 Index 388 Tabula Gratulatoria 398 Colour Plates 402 Former doctoral students come together to write essays in tribute to their supervisor, Joanna Cannon, whose scholarship and teaching have helped shape the historical study of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Italian art