Sanctity Pictured Symposium: Fragmentary Lives

Описание: Fragmentary Lives: Narrative Scenes from Renaissance Altarpieces in Sanctity Pictured

Presented by Dr. Donal Cooper, University of Cambridge

Sanctity Pictured brings together narrative scenes from some of the most important altarpieces commissioned by Franciscan and Dominican patrons in fifteenth-century Italy. In several cases, we can confidently reconstruct the altarpiece ensembles from which panels displayed in Nashville originate, reuniting these fragments (at least virtually) with companion pictures in other collections. For others, we are less certain and need to weigh competing hypotheses. This lecture focuses on the works in the exhibition by Spinello Aretino, Taddeo di Bartolo, Sassetta, Bartolomeo da Foligno, and the degli Erri brothers. It analyzes their narrative content in the light of the larger altarpieces of which they formed a part and considers the broader role of narrative in mendicant altarpiece design during the Renaissance.

This presentation was part of a symposium held in conjunction with the exhibition Sanctity Pictured: The Art of the Dominican and Franciscan Orders in Renaissance Italy, on view at the Frist Center from October 13, 2014 through January 25, 2015.