The Renaissance Antichrist : Luca Signorelli's Orvieto frescoes
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The Renaissance Antichrist : Luca Signorelli's Orvieto frescoes
Princeton University Press, 1995
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A major monument, Luca Signorelli's Orvieto Cathedral frescoes rendered with vigour and invective the most ambitious consideration of the Apocalypse and the Last Judgement in Italian Renaissance art. In a fresh interpretation of these frescoes, Jonathan Riess explores the intriguing, violent style and complex iconography and places the works in their richly faceted historical setting. Begun by Fra Angelico in 1447 and completed by Signorelli at the turn of the century, the frescoes reflect the turmoil within the Papal States, the suffering brought on by a surge of natural disasters, the fear of the Turks, and the anti-Judaic campaigns of the day. The book centres on the mural depicting the Rule of Antichrist, the single monumental portrayal of the subject during the Renaissance and a revealing indicator of widespread apocalyptic obsessions. Drawing on historical, theological, literary, and artistic sources, Riess examines the reasons behind the commissioning of the murals and considers the broad meaning of the programme. The Rule of Antichrist, for example, is seen as a summa of the doom-laden worlds of Rome and Orvieto and as a blistering condemnation of the political realm.
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Table of Contents
List of Illustrations I The Decline of Orvieto and the Commissioning of Luca Signorelli II The Chapel Decorations III Purgatory and Antichrist in the Cappella Nuova IV The Rule of Antichrist: Form, Content, Affinities V Signorelli's "Many Portraits" and the Papal States in 1500 VI The Play of Antichrist in Orvieto VII The Renaissance Antichrist (I): Saint Antoninus and Annio da Viterbo VIII The Renaissance Antichrist (II): Saint Vincent Ferrer IX Pictorial Sources for the Rule of Antichrist X The Orvieto Antichrist, the Jew, and Roman Imperial State Ceremony XI Antichrist, Rome, and the Jubilee of 1500 Notes Index Illustrations
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