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Abstract
This article explores anew the well-known frescoes by Simone Martini above the entrance to the Cathedral of Notre-Dame-des-Doms in Avignon. A new reading is facilitated in three ways: by considering the full range of possible iconographic and stylistic sources for these frescoes; by considering the content of the lost side-wall frescoes as well as the surviving frescoes; and by calling into question the methodologies and assumptions about influence and sources that have normally been brought to bear on the paintings. The whole ensemble is seen as a monument specific both to its time and its place, in which the patron, the Roman cardinal Jacopo Stefaneschi, expresses his hopes for salvation using the metaphors of vision and sight.
Translated title of the contribution | Site, seeing and salvation in fourteenth-century Avignon |
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Original language | English |
Pages (from-to) | 1 - 25 |
Number of pages | 25 |
Journal | Art History |
Volume | 30:1 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Feb 2007 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher: BlackwellResearch Groups and Themes
- Centre for Medieval Studies
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Invited talk at University of Swansea: Site and Sight: Simone Martini's Frescoes for Cardinal Jacopo Stefaneschi in Avignon
Williamson, B. A. (Invited speaker)
3 Dec 2003Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Invited talk
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36th International Congress on Medieval Studies
Williamson, B. A. (Speaker)
3 May 2001Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
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Centre for Medieval Studies Conference
Williamson, B. A. (Invited speaker)
17 May 2000Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference