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Edited by Christine Sciacca
Florence and the Renaissance have become virtually synonymous, bringing to mind names like Dante,
Giotto, Petrarch, Boccaccio, and many others whose creativity thrived during a time of unprecedented
prosperity, urban expansion, and intellectual innovation. With more than 200 illustrations,
Florence at the
Dawn of the Renaissance
reveals the full complexity and enduring beauty of the art of this period, including
panel paintings, illuminated manuscripts, and stained glass panels. The book considers not only the
work of Giotto and other influential artists, including Bernardo Daddi, Taddeo Gaddi, and Pacino di Bonaguida,
but also that of the larger community of illuminators and panel painters who collectively contributed
to Florence’s artistic legacy. It places particular emphasis on those artists who worked in both panel
painting and manuscript illumination and presents new conservation research and scientific analyses that
shed light on artists’ techniques and workshop practices of the times. Reunited here for the first time are
twenty-six leaves of the most important illuminated manuscript commission of the period: the Laudario of
Sant’ Agnese. The splendor of this book of hymns exemplifies the spiritual and artistic aspirations of early
Renaissance Florence.
A major exhibition on this subject will be on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum from November 13,
2012, through February 10, 2013, and at the Art Gallery of Ontario from March 16, 2013, through June 16,
2013. Contributors to this volume include Roy S. Berns, Eve Borsook, Bryan Keene, Francesca Pasut, Catherine
Schmidt Patterson, Alan Phenix, Laura Rivers, Victor M. Schmidt, Alexandra Suda, Yvonne Szafran, Karen
Trentelman, and Nancy Turner.
Christine Sciacca is assistant curator in the Department of Manuscripts at the J. Paul Getty Museum
and the author of
Building the Medieval World
(Getty Publications, 2010).
- 448 pages
9 x 12 inches
240 color illustrations
ISBN 978-1-60606-126-8
hardcover
Getty Publications
Imprint: J. Paul Getty Museum
2012