Image Credits

Home

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).

CITIES

Banner: View of San Gimignano, Tuscany.

Midway: 16c drawing showing incastellamento in the Casentino region of Tuscany (Museo della Civiltà Castellana, Castel San Niccolò).

ART

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).

Boccaccio

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).

Dante

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.

Petrarch

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.

Plague

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).

Recommendations

Banner: Sienese cityscape, from The Effects of Good Government by Ambrogio Lorenzetti, 1338–9 (Palazzo Pubblico, Siena).

Bibliographies

Banner: Unsourced Wordpress image of old books.