Artistic Encounters in Trecento Italy

The fourteenth century in Italy, the age of Giotto, Dante, and Boccaccio, widely known as the trecento, was a pivotal moment in art history and in European culture. The studies in this volume present new approaches to art in this important but often neglected period of the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance. Scholars at various stages in their careers discuss a wide range of topics including architecture, materiality, politics, patronage, and devotion, contributing to a new understanding of how art was made and experienced in this nodal century. These papers were originally presented at the Andrew Ladis Memorial Trecento Conference hosted by the Frist Art Museum in Nashville in January 2022.

Acknowledgements
Trinita Kennedy

Introduction
Theresa Flanigan

About the Authors

Bologna Redux: A Fresh Look at the Beginnings of Legal Manuscript Illustration
Susan L’Engle

I. Iconography and Viewer Experience

‘To see a falling church means change’: Papal Dreams and a Public Audience in Late Medieval Rome
Danny Smith

‘Giotto’s Wit’ Revisited: Ingegno and Pictorial Signification in the Vele at Assisi
John Renner

Coping with the Black Death: Giovanni del Biondo’s St Sebastian Altarpiece for Florence Cathedral
Louise Marshall

Iconography and Display of Panel Paintings in Urban and Rural Residences in Florence, 1384–1432
Lorenzo Vigotti

II. Art and Female Devotion

A Newly Discovered Work by Cimabue: Passion Narratives and Gendered Devotion
Holly Flora

Cloistered Encounters: The Poor Clares’ Eucharistic Devotion at San Pietro in Vineis in Anagni and San Sebastiano in Alatri
Shane Harless

To See in a Glass not Dimly: Angela of Foligno with Glass as Mystic Incarnation
Patricia Zimmerman and Nancy Thompson

III. Astrology, Ethics, and Law

Guariento’s Planets and Ages of Man in the Church of the Eremitani in Padua
Anna Majeski

Fallen Idols in Padua under the Carrara (1338–1405)
Zuleika Murat

The Law and Images of Sexual Violence in Padua and Siena
Péter Bokody

IV. Race and Identity

The Science and Semiotics of Skin: Complexion, Character, and Race in Giotto’s Arena Chapel
Theresa Flanigan

Giotto’s Depiction of an African Man in the Arena Chapel’s Mocking of Christ
Patricia Simons

Reconsidering the Aix-Lehman Panels
Imogen Tedbury

V. Artists and Patrons

‘With his Right Hand’: Signatures, Gestures, and Artistic Self-Awareness in Pietro Lorenzetti’s Arezzo Altarpiece
Christopher Platts

Who Was Gregorio di Cecco?
Gail Solberg

Apropos the Patron of the Trecento Frescoes in the Magdalen Chapel in San Pietro a Maiella, Naples
Janis Elliott

Lorenzo Monaco, Cosimo de’ Medici, and the Elaborate Commission for the High Altar of the Hospital Church of Sant’Egidio in Florence
George R. Bent

VI. Making and Materiality

A Newly Reassembled Diptych by Pietro Lorenzetti and Niccolò di Ser Sozzo’s Beginnings in Pietro’s Workshop
Gaudenz Freuler

Hinged: A Study of Three Trecento Triptychs
Kristin Holder

‘Ad modum figurarum marmorearum’: Painting Wooden Sculptures in White to Simulate Marble in a Lost Commission by Vitale da Bologna
Gianluca del Monaco

VII. Reconsiderations and Reconstructions

Jacopo di Paolo’s Workshop in the Shadows of the Basilica of San Petronio and San Pietro Cathedral: New Perspectives and Reflections
Fabio Massaccesi

Were Giant Churches a Betrayal of Francis?
Erik Gustafson

Reconstructing the System of Painted Images around the Rood Screen in Santa Croce, Florence
Giovanni Pescarmona and Giuseppe Costanzone

The Stage of Simone Martini’s St Louis of Toulouse for King Robert of Anjou on the Rood Screen of San Lorenzo Maggiore in Naples
Machtelt Brüggen Israëls

Encomium
Leonard Folgarait