Banner: A Tale from the Decameron, by J.W. Waterhouse, 1916 (Lady Lever Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK).
Center: Boccaccio's brigata, from a manuscript of the Decameron illustrated by Taddeo Crivelli, 1467 (Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Holkham misc. 49, f. 5r).
Left side detail: The allegorical figure of Peace, from The Allegory of Good Government by Ambrogio Lorenzetti, 1338–9 (Palazzo Pubblico, Siena).
Banner: View of San Gimignano, Tuscany.
Midway: 16c drawing showing incastellamento in the Casentino region of Tuscany (Museo della Civiltà Castellana, Castel San Niccolò).
Banner: Giotto, The Arrest of Christ or Kiss of Judas, ca. 1304–6, Arena Chapel, Padua.
Period Eye:
Iconography example: Rofeno Abbey Polyptych by Ambrogio Lorenzetti for the Badia di Rofeno, near Siena, 1330–5 (Museo d'arte sacra, Asciano).
Infographic: St Michael Battling the Demons of Lucifer, by Spinello Aretino, Basilica of San Francesco, Arezzo, ca. 1350.
Polyptych:
Top: Reconstruction of Duccio di Buoninsegna's Maestà, ca. 1311 (Museo dell'Opera di Duomo, Siena and other museums worldwide).
Examples: Lorenzetti's Rofeno Abbey Polyptych (see above) and Simone Martini, Altarpiece of the Virgin and Child with Saints, made for S. Maria dei Servi, Orvieto, ca.1320 (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston).
Banner: Giovanni Boccaccio and the brigata, from a copy of Laurent de Premierfait's French translation of the Decameron made in Bruges about 1482 (The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, MS 133 A 5, fol. 3v).
Banner: Dante and Vergil looking into the tiers of the violent and suicidal in Canto XI of Inferno (London, British Library, Yates Thompson MS 36, fol. 20r).
Updated Inferno: Taddeo di Bartolo, detail of Hell, Last Judgment, Collegiata di San Gimignano, 1393-4.
Contrapasso: Andrea di Bonaiuto, demons, detail of Crucifixion and Descent into Hell, Spanish Chapel, Santa Maria Novella, Florence, 1366–7.
Banner: detail from Simone Martini's frontispiece to Petrarch's personal copy of Vergil, 1336 (Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana MS Sp.10.N.27)
Humanism: Portrait of Petrarch by Andrea di Castagno, ca. 1450 (Uffizi Gallery, Florence); statue of Cola di Rienzo by Girolamo Masini (1877), Capitoline steps, Rome.
Letter to Petrarch: Another detail from Simone Martini's frontispiece to Petrarch's personal copy of Vergil, 1336 (Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana MS Sp.10.N.27).
Tours of the Imagination: Miniature with a view of Rome by Leonardo da Besozzo, from a chronicle copied in 1436 (Crespi collection, Milan).
Symbols of Empire: A Fascist-era (1938) wolf with Romulus and Remus, and Rome's SPQR acronym on Via Petroselli, Rome.
Banner: Citizens of Tournai burying plague victims, detail of a miniature from the chronicle of Gilles li Muisis (Brussels, Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, MS 13076-77, f. 24v).
Banner: Sienese cityscape, from The Effects of Good Government by Ambrogio Lorenzetti, 1338–9 (Palazzo Pubblico, Siena).
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