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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 |
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| 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