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Speaker: Christopher S. Wood Host: Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rom
As if revisiting the religion's primordial decision in favor of an exoteric, rather than esoteric, identity, the Italian painters of the fourteenth century populated Christian subjects and scenes with semi-outsiders: watchers and doubters, anachronistic visitants, sponsors clerical and lay. Pressure on narrative from the outside tested the integrity of the artwork. [more]
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