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Description: Storytelling in Christian Art from Giotto to Donatello
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Abraham 149–50, 151, 153–4, 170, 236
abundance 270
active reader 13
active spectator 11, 13
Acts of the Apostles 205–6
Adam and Eve 236, 243
Addison, Joseph 284, 286
Adoration
of images 7
of the Magi 8–9, 49, 87, 91, 99, 101–3, 104, 105–6, 108, 134, 134–5, 140, 231, 280
of the Shepherds 33
aerial perspective 224
Agamemnon 271, 290
Agony in the Garden 248, 250, 252–3, 232–3, 262, 264, 267, 287
al antico style 188
alabaster windows 121
Alberti, Leon Battista 20, 77, 83, 158, 176–87, 178, 189–90, 194, 201, 224, 230, 251, 269–74, 282–4, 286, 290, 324, 330, 334
Albertian diagram of the perspective construction 178, 292
alienation 4–5, 295
allegories 7, 271
altar 42–4, 46, 54, 64, 222
altarpiece 111–2
Altichiero 186
ambiguity 60, 166, 191, 193
Ames–Lewis, brands 310, 312–13
analogy 32, 207–8
anamorphic perspective 144
anamorphosis 123, 293
Ananias 223
‘And the graves opened’ 264–5, 263
Andrea da Firenze 186
Andrea Pisano 149–51
Andrews, Lew 317, 330
Angelico, Fra x, xi
Angels of Last Judgement 94
anger 24, 43–4, 79–80, 132
Anna 50–2
Annas 20, 22, 23, 35–6, 69, 276
Annunciation 42–3, 53–5, 64–5, 91, 93, 95 95–6, 97–100, 97, 99, 101, 139–40, 232, 245, 272, 281, 283–4, 311,
to Anna 50, 31
to the Shepherds 93
anomalies 197
Anti-Christ 138
anti–naturalism 133, 251
antithesis 23, 28, 37, 46–7, 52, 80–1, 110–11, 117, 125–6, 171, 225, 285,
Apocalypse 113
apochryphal tales 278
apparent
diminution 177–8, 182–3, 183, 185, 196, 224,
size 186
Apparition of St Francis at Arles 141
architectural style 188
architecture 24–5, 27, 32, 34, 36–7, 39, 53, 80–1, 140, 176, 184–5, 187, 189, 194–7, 224–5, 229, 235, 237–8, 240, 243, 249, 253, 258, 286,
history of 235
Arena, Padua 42
Aristotle, Poetics 3–5, 20, 36, 48, 284, 295–6
Arrest of the Baptist 191, 190, 193–4, 228
art criticism 269
artist 269, 272, 275, 282
artistic, freedom 269, 279, 281
progress 117
artist–intellectual 34
artists’ collections of books 277
Ascension
and Giving of the Keys 213
of Christ 245
of Jesus 43, 47, 49, 64, 76, 78, 80, 248, 250, 253, 262–4, 266, 266–7
of St John the Evangelist 251
Ascent of the Virgin 245
atmospheric perspective 293
authority 31–32, 34, 136
of paintings as great as books 9, 11
avant-garde 176, 183, 223
Ave Maria 65, 274, 283
Avignon papacy 209
Bach, J. S., Passions 116
baptism of Jesus 5, 49, 190
baptismal font, Baptistery, Siena 176, 190, 191, 228, 283
baptistery doors
Florence 289
second set 149, 170, 157
Baptistery
Florence 175, 179–81, 185–7, 187, 190, 227, 238,
Siena 195, 202
Barbadon Chapel, Sta Felicità, Florence 188
Bardi Chapel, Sta Croce, Florence 141, 314, 220
Barna da Siena 164, 166, 167
Baroncelli Chapel, Sta Croce 144, 147, 242
basilica 6, 216, 218
battle scene 136
battlefield 127, 136, 140
Baxandall, Michael 311, 314, 320–1, 330, 333, 337
beauty 11–13, 270, 286
Beck, James 320
Beckwith, John 296
beginning 64, 92
Bellinati, Claudio 304, 308
Belmer, Rudolf 337
Belting, Hans 299
bench, judicial 25, 32
Benedetto da Maiano, collection of books 277, 281
Benjamin 237–9, 242, 286
Betrayal of Jesus 43, 56, 61, 62, 63–4, 70, 78, 80–1, 83, 118, 118, 120, 120–1, 120–2, 124, 127–6, 127, 130, 139, 156, 211, 252, 277–8, 281, 284, 289
Betrothal of the Virgin 43, 53, 56, 76–7, 64, 80, 144–5, 147, 242, 283, 290
bible 7, 9–10, 20, 22, 37, 39, 49, 93, 128, 151–2, 154, 160, 166, 169, 193, 236, 241–2, 245, 255, 259, 273, 275, 277–81
in Italian translation 277–8, 282
story 106, 108, 143
biblical narratives 269
Birth of the Virgin 170, 150, 195
blind justice 132
Boccaccio
Deal meron 241, 295
Life of Dante 13, 300
Bohemia 208
Bolzoni, Linda 306
Book of Saints 277
book of the laity
images as 8–9
paintings as 8–9
Borsook, Eve 294, 304
Botticelli, Sandro 275
boundary 27–8, 30, 32, 34–6, 43, 76
column 32, 34
Brancacci
Chapel 144, 176, 179, 188, 205–6, 221, 223, 288, 320, 336
family 206, 208–9, 215
Brecht, Bertold 295
bronze 333
relief 176
colour of 252–3, 333
weight of 155, 316
Brown, Peter 297
Brunelleschi, Filippo xiixiii, 149–54, 158, 160, 176–7, 179–94, 187, 197, 201–2, 211–12, 223–5, 234–5, 238, 245, 274, 281, 284, 288
peepshows attributed to 180–2, 185–7, 190, 234–5
Prior of Florence 274
Bruni, Leonardo 227–8
Burckhardt, Jacob 141
Burrow, J. A. 335
Butanone 164
butchery 110
caesura 43–4, 54, 76
Caiaphas 22–24, 234, 26, 29–30, 33, 36, 69, 70, 118, 118, 124, 128, 128–30, 177, 136, 139, 274, 254, 256–7, 267, 279
Cain and Abel 6, 230–3, 231, 233, 279
calligraphy 11–12
cameo relief 196, 230–1, 261, 263
camposanto, Pisa 90, 127
canonical images 11, 279
captions 275–6
Capture of Jesus 133
Carmelite Order 208–9, 216, 223, 278
cartoons 207, 283
casting of bronze 155
catacombs, Rome 5–6, 56, 281
cathedral
of Florence 184–7, 245
office of works 246
of Siena 195, 202
Catholic church 277
causality 47, 61, 63, 69, 99, 225, 285
cause and effect 81, 108, 171, 284–5
Cennino Cennmi, Libro del Arte 272–4
censorship 2, 281
central point 181, 224
perspective 225
centralised
composition 223, 249
perspective 249
centric point 177, 184
cerebral art 290
chancel 42–3, 53, 55, 64
chapter 28, 43–4, 52–4, 63, 80–1
chaos 140
Characterics, Earl of Shaftesbury 282
Charity 51
Chazelle, Celia 11–12, 297–8, 300
chicken, decapitated 202
choir 43, 92
Christ 8–9, 12, 22–3, 96, 102, 105
Christ in Limbo 26, 264, 333
Christian
art xii, 5–6, 10, 36, 80, 138, 272, 276
doctrine of xi, 6–7, 10, 288
artist 80
books 277
doctrine 248, 252, 267, 273, 275, 279
educated 12
education 276
God 6
instruction 6–7, 11, 13, 276
self-restraint 79–80
story 10, 17, 115
first paintings of 8
Christianity 5–6
Christians 296
Christiansen, Keith 324, 329
Christmas 94, 110, 138
church 6, 52–3, 159, 209
and State, relation between 208–9, 216, 222, 225
militant 160
paintings in 276
circle, illusion of 121–2, 123, 126 circular composition 120
Clarisse Madonna, National Gallery, London 112
classical sculpture 124
clay figures, see also models 164
climax 70, 120, 151–2, 156, 193–4, 201, 211, 224–5, 232, 242, 249
clouds used to represent dreams 314
Codice Magliabechiano 181
Cole, Bruce 305
Coleman, Joyce 297
collaboration 156–7, 160, 176, 187–8, 190
Collegiata, San Gimignano 336
colour 24, 50, 52, 55, 69, 76, 210, 214–5, 262, 270
column 25–7, 30–2, 34
commandment, second 5–6
Commentaries, by Ghiberti 156–7, 170, 228–9
commutative justice 77, 78, 80
competition 156–7, 175, 190–1, 248,
competition
for second Baptistery doors, Florence 149–57, 154, 156, 158, 180 212, 223, 266, 277, 315–6
relief for Florence Baptistery doors by Ghiberti 289
relief for Florence Baptistery doors, Brunelleschi 149–54, 152, 186–7
relief, 1401 225
complex thoughts 272
complexity 248, 271, 275
composition xi, 5, 20, 30, 55, 61, 63, 71, 77, 78, 81, 86, 89, 118–21, 124, 128, 136, 140–1, 143–5, 157, 160, 163–4, 170, 176–7, 185, 190, 211, 213, 223–4, 242, 247, 258, 260, 267, 270–1, 275–6, 281, 284, 287, 303, 319, 328
circular 120
compositional formula see formula 56
compression 110, 112, 143–4, 166, 170, 209, 224, 255–6, 258, 267, 283
concealment 56, 59
concepts 18
concorrento 243
Confessions of Sr Augustine 80
conflict of law 208
confusion
moral 112
visual 86, 97, 126, 129, 136, 140, 144–5, 234–5, 240, 242, 254, 290
conjunction 46, 81, 275, 285
conspiracy 59, 105, 108, 233, 240–2, 249, 279, 286
Constantino 6, 296
Constantine 6
contemplation 83, 272
contiguity 285
continuous narration 63, 97, 106, 212, 229, 283
contract 212, 279
contrast 23, 28, 37, 64, 125–6, 128, 133, 139, 153, 211, 267
control 32, 36, 77, 256, 271,
controlled diminution 292
conventions
relating to signs 276
human 12
convergence 177, 179, 182–4, 183
of orthogonals 185, 189
to a point 196, 292
converging
lines 179, 196, 201, 224, 253
perspective 243
conversion 218
copiousness 270, 286
Corinthian
column 187
pilaster 187–8
Correct Law 115–7, 123, 118–23, 127, 132, 140, 163, 302–3
Cosimo de Medici 215, 247
costruzione legittima 177, 189
council meeting in heaven 43, 81
Council of Constance 208
council, papal 209
court of heaven 42
courtroom 25–6, 28, 31–3, 37–8, 170, 209–10, 256
cowardice 132
Creation 236
Creation of Adam and Eve 231, 232
creed 92
Crete, artist from 277
artist from, collection of books 274
critique 230, 233
Crossing the Red Sea 5
Crucifixion 8, 34, 43, 49, 110, 111–2, 115, 128, 136, 137, 140, 248, 250, 255, 238, 258–9, 262, 267, 280, 288
cryptic images 83
cupola, Florence cathedral 155–6, 184, 238
model 187
curvature of relief 117–8, 119, 120–1, 123
cycle 111, 197, 251
Damisch, Hubert 319, 321–2
dance 12
Dante 13, 101–2, 110, 139, 270, 272, 275, 277, 283, 287, 334
Convivio 278
Inferno 3, 295
Lord’s prayers, Italian translation 278
Darnton, Robert 295
David
and Goliath 274
and the Ark 272
bronze statue by Donatello of 251
daylight 64
De doctrina Christiana 300
De Pichira, by L. B. Alberti 20, 77, 158, 176–87, 189–90, 269, 272, 274–5, 324
De re aedificatoria, by L. B. Alberti 183, 201, 334
deacon 92, 93–4, 94, 96, 98, 112, 139
death 247
penalty 24, 34
Sentence 61, 63–5, 67–8, 70, 78, 83, 141, 284
debate xiii, 111, 156, 176, 249, 266
Debold-von Kritter, Astrid 327, 330
deceit 59
deception 2, 12, 105, 132, 240, 242–3
deciphering images 13, 242, 258, 260, 271, 282
decisive moment 211, 233
decoding images 70
Decorum 160
dedicatory letter to Brunelleschi by Alberti 184
Dello pittura 179, 184, 274–5
Derbes, Anne 301
Descent into Limbo 248
detachment 83, 138, 225
Devout Meditation 133, 153, 166, 170, 193, 275, 279, 280–2, 314
diagesis 4
dialogue 4, 230, 248
Diatesseron, Tatian 20, 25, 59, 143, 278
Didactic
images 272, 288
purposes 283
difficulty 13, 36, 132, 140, 233, 239, 242–3, 271, 290
in representation 105
diminution 194, 243, 292
in apparent size 189–90, 229
controlled 292
dimostrationi 235
direct imitation 4
disease 3
disharmony 50
disorder 25, 242, 304
distance 4–5, 292, 295
distanced style 288, 290
distancing effect 195, 232, 243, 264, 267
divine sculpture 102
division of labour 1
doctrine 7, 170, 211, 224–5, 249, 272, 290
of church 223
Christian 267, 248, 252, 273, 275
Domenico di Prato 179, 183, 187, 189
Dominican Order 9, 278
Donatello xii, xiii, 86, 144, 150–1, 156–7, 173, 175, 177, 179, 181, 183, 185–91, 193–7, 201–2, 212–3, 222–3, 224–5, 227, 228–31, 233, 243, 245–54, 256–64, 266–7, 274, 277, 279, 282–5, 289–90
Miracles of St Anthony 249
Donatello’s tomb 247
doors
of Baptistery, Florence, second set 185, 187, 196, 229, 277, 281
of Siena Cathedral 175, 246–7
dramatic narrative 287
dreams 285
Drury, John 303
Duccio xii, xiii, 8, 17, 18, 20–3, 25–7, 29–36, 47–8, 55, 59, 63, 66, 81, 83, 97, 126, 138–9, 140, 164, 170, 202, 212, 225, 248–9, 251, 254, 256, 266, 276, 278, 283, 285, 288–90
literacy of 275
Duggan, Lawrence 298
Dunbar, Robin 295
Dura-Europos. synagogue 154, 296, 316
dwell, see also linger 30, 36, 83, 127, 270
Eadwine Psalter 303
Easter 94, 247, 262
story 110
echo 130, 211, 255
economic policy, counter–cyclic 237
Eden 236
education 2, 273, 275
unsubsidised 273
Egypt 236–7
elegance 251, 286
Elijah 76
elision 105, 132–3
Elkins, James 319, 329
ellipse 121–2, 123
Elsner, J. 296
emotion 3–5, 9, 20, 70, 77, 89, 130, 133, 138–9, 156–9, 170, 197, 210, 214, 225, 239, 242–3, 271, 288, 290
encryption 271
enigmatic 280
Entombment of Jesus 248–9, 260, 260–3, 262–3, 267
Entry into Jerusalem 43, 43, 64, 33, 80, 248, 252
Envy 272
Epiphany, Feast of 8
episode 119, 165–6, 170, 202, 212, 224, 229, 230–1, 238, 243, 267, 284
episodic 63, 118, 249, 284
Epistles 92
eureka moment 189
Evangelists 92
exile 206, 215
Exodus 5–6
experiment 184, 189
experimentation 157
Expulsion from Eden 213–5, 214, 220, 222, 225
Expulsion of the Moneychangers from the Temple 53, 78, 104, 160, 161–2, 240
external narrator 287
external observer 290
eye contact 288
eye-level 89, 127, 151, 187, 150, 253, 260
eyewitness 7, 10–11, 18, 67, 95, 127, 129–30, 139, 170, 280–1, 286
facial expression 212, 275
fade 120, 122, 125, 130, 133, 260
faith 10, 51
Fall of Man 222
Feast of Herod 141–4, 141–3, 241, 289
feelings, control of 5
Field, J.V. 319–20
Filarete, Treatise on Architecture 180, 182–3, 186, 190, 275, 321
Filippino Lippi 206, 215–6, 222
Filippo Lippi 274
first person narrative 287, 289
Flagellation 31, 118, 118, 124, 128, 129, 133, 137, 139, 276, 281
flashback 231
Flemish painting 290
Flight into Egypt 43, 49, 120, 120, 133
Florence 8, 27, 102, 141, 151, 157, 179, 188, 190, 206, 215, 245–6, 273, 278, 289
Flowers of Virtue 277
focus 89, 100, 112, 117–20, 120, 123, 126, 126, 130, 136, 138, 140, 142–3, 164, 176, 186, 194, 201, 212, 224–5, 242, 260, 267, 289
font, Baptistery, Siena 191, 228, 283
foreshortening 122, 124, 142, 151, 189, 197, 250–1, 260, 293
Foster, Kenelm 336
four-fold response to miracles 290
Fra Angelico x, xi, 164, 248, 274, 278
Fra Giordano da Rivolto 8–9, 11, 94, 280, 298–9, 306
frame 151, 166, 186–7, 190, 194–7, 202, 213, 222, 224, 229, 243, 249–50, 258, 267, 290, 292
France 208
Francesco da Barberino 272
Franciscan
Martyrs, fresco of 287
Order 278
fresco 5, 39, 42–3, 46, 63, 69, 85, 87, 176, 179, 202–25, 214–5, 222
Freud, Sigmund, Interpretation of Dreams 285
friendship between Brunelleschi, Donatello and Masaccio 181, 183, 187
frontal 3, 69, 83, 112, 151, 153, 156, 197
plane 288
future 98
Gabriel 42, 55, 64, 95–101, 281, 283, 287, 289
Gabriel’s prophecy 232
Gardner, Julian 294, 300, 314
Gates of Paradise 150, 173, 179, 196, 203, 222, 227–30, 228, 235, 243, 228, 245–6, 249–50, 258, 266, 279, 283, 288
Gendle, N. 298
Genesis 236
Genette, Gérard 295, 308
Gentile da Fabriano 188, 212, 319
geometric perspective 148–51, 175–90, 194, 196, 229, 242, 270, 292
construction 220
Ghiberti, Lorenzo xii, xiii, 2, 61, 149–50, 153–6, 159–60, 163–4, 166, 168, 170–1, 173, 175–6, 179, 185, 187–8, 190–7, 201, 203, 209, 211, 215, 218, 223–5, 227–36, 238, 240–3, 245–52, 258, 261, 266–7, 270, 273–4, 277, 279, 281–3, 286–9, 295
Ghiberti, self-portraits 131, 243
Gilbert, Creighton 302, 304, 329–30, 333
gilding 263–4
Ginzberg, Carlo 295
Giordano, Fra, see Fra Giordano Giotto xii, xiii, 8, 18, 20, 22, 39, 42, 48–50, 52, 54–5, 63–7, 70, 72–4, 77–81, 83, 85, 97, 106, 108, 110, 116, 138–41, 143–4, 151, 154–60, 163–4, 166, 170–1, 188, 191, 193, 211–4, 214, 220, 222, 224–52 48–9, 241, 252–3, 260, 266, 272, 274, 276, 278, 281, 283–4, 288–90
Giovanni di Paolo 164
Giovanni Dominici 276
Giovanni Pisano xii–iii, 8, 20, 39, 42, 66, 77, 80, 83, 85–7, 89–92, 92, 96–8, 100–02, 106, 108, 110–13, 115–8, 120–2, 124, 126–7, 129, 133–41, 143–5. 150–1, 154–7, 163, 170–1, 186, 188, 195, 197, 201–2, 212, 214, 218, 225, 229–32, 243, 248–52, 260–1, 266, 272, 274, 277, 281–3, 288–90, 304
Giovanni Villain 273
God 11–12, 42, 44, 51, 53, 79, 80, 103, 105, 150, 154–5, 166, 208–9, 215, 231–2, 252, 255, 284, 287,
Golden Gate of the Temple 50, 92, 52–3
Golden Legend 218, 277, 279
Gombrich, E. H. 156, 223, 234, 305, 307. 317, 330–1, 335–7
Gonzaga, Lodovico 247
Good and Bad Government, frescoes in Siena, Palazzo Communale 212
gospels 5, 9, 20, 22, 36, 39, 56, 61, 91–2, 94–5, 99, 128, 143, 202, 210, 223, 260, 278–9
gossip 2
gothic 171
graduated levels of relief 196, 223, 261, 267
Grayson, Cecil 322
Greece 8–9
Greek 7
Green, Christopher 294
Gregory the Great 6–7, 9–12, 33, 36, 80–1, 133, 286, 288, 297
Grendler, Paul 273
grooming 2
ground plans 181
Guarino da Verona 336
Guelph party niche, Or San Michele 188
guild of painters, Siena 10–11, 20, 273, 281
handwriting 12
Head of St John brought to the King’s Table 150–1, 175–6, 179, 189–97, 192, 198200, 197, 201–2, 212–3, 222, 224–3, 229–30, 233, 245, 249, 231–2, 282, 284–3, 289–90
hell 78
Henderson, John 294
Herod 22, 25, 28–30, 36–7, 70–2, 102–3, 103–6, 107, 108, 110–11, 120, 127, 129, 135, 136, 138–9, 142–4, 190, 193, 196–7, 201–2, 223, 242, 282, 283, 290
Herod’s
banqueting hall 233
palace 283
Herodias 142, 191,193–4, 202, 242, 283
Herzner, Volker 331
high relief 171, 261, 264, 267
Hills, Paul 306, 330
historia 7, 230, 290
history
of mankind 236
painting 243
Hogarth, William 27
holding the attention 270, 286
Holy
Communion 92
of Holies 33
Spirit 33–3, 81
home, religious paintings in 276
Homer 2, 4, 293
Hope 31, 35, 64, 76, 76, 78, 80, 139
Hope, Charles 302
Horace, De arte poetica 64, 308
human
conventions 12
rights 35
humanist 243
criticism of painting 273
Hungary 206
Huss, John 208, 233
iconoclasm 6, 297
iconoclastic controversy 9
iconography xi
identification 4, 128, 132, 139, 163, 262, 276, 279, 281 288–90,
illiteracy 7, 11–13
illusion 4, 89, 91, 122, 121, 126, 138, 140, 220
of space 120, 136
illustration of scriptures 7, 33, 81, 103
image as text 7
images
as books to be read 7
canonical 11
worship of 6
Imtitatio Christi 232
imitation 4, 32, 232, 288
of Christ 18, 23, 32, 37
of saints 290
immediacy 212, 224, 284
impasto in fresco 212–14
‘in medias res’ 64, 70, 73
incarnation 42, 33–5, 99
inconstancy 37
indeterminacy of visual images 108, 286, 290
indirect
approach 233
narration 4
individuality of artists in the Renaissance 137
inference 69, 283–6
injustice 36–7, 79–80, 132, 249
inner
feelings 136, 225, 288, 290
life 80
thoughts 170
Innocenti loggia, Florence 188
instruction 5–7, 39
Christian 6–7, 11, 13
religious xi, 5–7
intellect 80, 290
intellectual 272
intelligibility 277
intemperance 78, 80, 132
international gothic style 176
interpretation of images 23, 36, 46, 81, 132–3, 219, 243, 270, 272, 280, 285
interpreter of dreams, Joseph as 236
intersection 181
intricacy 63, 127, 171, 242
invention 20, 118, 169, 209, 224
of perspective 175–7, 180, 182, 326
inventor of perspective 189
inwardness 163
ionic capital 188
Ira, see Anger Isaac 151, 154, 236
Isaacs mansion 229, 236
Isaiah 92, 97
Jacob 236, 238
and Esau 228–9, 233, 277
Jacobus, Laura 304–5
Janson, H. W. 319–20, 331–2
Jericho 236
Jerusalem 28, 44, 50–1, 53, 76, 236
Jesus 5, 11, 17–18, 20, 23, 27–35, 37, 42–3, 53, 56, 58–60, 63–4, 66, 69, 76, 78, 80, 94, 97, 100–1, 105, 108, 111–3, 119–22, 124–30, 132, 138–9, 157, 159–60, 163–6, 168, 170, 205, 207–12, 222–4, 241, 248, 250, 252–7, 266–7, 276, 280, 282, 285, 288–90
amongst the Doctors 53, 164–6, 167, 167–9, 168–70, 211, 218, 281, 284
as a model, conduct of 37
expelling the Moneychangers from the Temple 160–3, 161–2, 276
in Wilderness 287
interrogated by the Priests 70
Washing the Disciples’ Feet 43
Life of 247, 278
Jewish
justice 37
religion 52
Jews 5, 7, 9, 22, 24–5, 27, 30, 32, 36–7, 58, 63, 69, 296
jigsaw puzzle 190
Joachim 46–8, 50–2, 69, 81,
and Anna 43, 44, 46–9, 71, 53, 276, 283, 285
in the Wilderness 49, 285, 288
Dream of 47, 50–1
Expulsion from the Temple 46, 46–7, 48, 50–1, 53–54, 63–4, 81, 285
Sacrifice of 51
Joannides, Paul 324
Jonah and the Whale 5
Joseph 166, 236–42, 286
and his Brothers 61, 229, 233–5, 234, 239–42, 243, 248, 267, 277, 279, 286
granary 229, 234, 235–6, 238, 240, 242
Judaism 5
Judas 43, 59–60, 62, 81, 119–22, 121–2, 124–5, 127, 130, 139, 241, 289
Judas’s Kiss 1276
judge 66, 208, 210
judgement 209, 211, 213, 216, 222, 224, 241, 257
Justice 18, 20, 22, 25–6, 31–2, 34–7, 42, 44, 77, 78–9, 80–1, 138, 140, 211, 256,
administration of 139
blind 132
commutative 77, 78, 80
miscarriage of 70
travesty of 34
juxtaposition 23, 46–8, 76, 79, 81, 83, 126, 129–30, 133, 144, 211, 222, 285
Kemp, Martin 314, 319
Kern, G. J. 320
Kessler, Herbert 297–98
King of the Jews 22, 27, 255
Krautheimer, Richard 227, 233, 239–41, 296, 315–6, 318–9, 330–1, labels for images 275
Lamentation 49–50, 74, 246, 248–50, 258–60, 27860, 263, 267, 276, 280
Lancelot and Guinevere 3
lancet windows 42, 53
Landmo, Cristoforo 181–3, 223
landscape 235, 243
inhabited by figures 292
language 12, 81, 272
Laökoon, by Gotthold Lessing 70, 282, 284–5, 308
Last
Judgement 44, 64, 76, 79, 81, 111–3, 111–3, 138, 209, 222, 279, 285,
Supper 5, 43, 56, 58, 60, 63, 70, 83, 144, 241, 278, 280
Latin 7, 10, 94, 103, 117, 274–5, 278
inscriptions on Giovanni Pisano pulpits 274
on Virtues and Vices, Scrovegni Chapel 274
Lavin, Irving 331
law 208
God’s 216
laws to control storytelling, subject matter 2, 4
Lazarus 223
learning visual language 276
lectern 92, 111
Leonardo da Vinci 156, 275, 317
Lessing, Gotthold, see Laökoon
liberal arts 273
Libro di Antonio Billi 181, 183, 187
Life of St Bernard 277
light 50, 121, 142, 144, 210, 212–5, 220, 224, 261–2, 306
and shade 293
of dawn 24, 35
directional 213
Lindisfarne Gospels
Anglo-Saxon translation of 277
linger, see also dwell 83, 127, 153, 233, 269–70, 282
literacy 7, 10, 12–13, 20, 243, 269, 273–5, 282, 297, 302
literate artist 10, 20
literature 138, 271, 273
Little Flowers of St Francis 277
Loggia 25, 28
logic 47, 52, 55, 63, 70, 81, 128, 132–3, 171, 225, 269, 282, 284–6, 289
logical relationships 48, 130, 285
logic–bearing syntax 286
Lorenzetti, Ambrogio 157, 186, 188, 212-13, 230, 274, 281, 287, 302, 318, n. 23
Good and Bad Government frescoes 18, 212, 304
Lorenzetti, Pietro 188, 195, 212, 248
Lorenzo Monaco 274
Lowden, John 296, 299
Lubbock, Jules 317
Luca della Robbia 179, 187, 274
luxury 12–13, 223
lyric mode 133
Machiavellian politics 241
Maestà
Duccio xiii, 17, 18–19, 36, 39, 80, 202, 256, 288, 290
Simone Martini 18
Magi 8, 63, 102–3, 105, 108
Dream of 99, 106, 106, 134, 135
Maginnis, Hayden 299, 309
magnificence 26, 34, 254
Malchus 124, 130, 139
Mâle, Emile 296
Manetti, Antonio 155, 180–2, 184–7, 212, 234
Mango, Cyril 299, 335
manifesto 219, 233, 269
Mantegna, Andrea 251, 332
Mantua 247
marble block, orientation of 90–1, 91–2
Maries at the Tomb 248, 250, 263–4, 263–4, 266
Marriage at Cana 83, 144
Martin v, Pope 209
martyr 249
Masaccio xii–iii, 156–7, 173, 176–7, 179, 181, 183–7, 191, 227, 229–31, 241, 243, 249, 256, 266, 274, 277–9, 288, 298, 325
Pisa altarpiece 179, 187, 189, 206
self-portrait 219, 220, 268
mask 128
masking, see overlapping 292
Masolmo 176, 179, 187, 205–6, 213, 215, 222
Mass 39, 42, 90, 92, 94, 96, 222, 278
Massacre of the Innocents 43, 64–5, 70–3, 71–2, 77, 80, 83, 105, 10711, 108, 110–11, 119–20, 120, 129, 136, 137, 139–41, 144, 214, 280, 290
‘Means of Representation in Dreams’ 285
Medici, Cosimo de 245, 247
tomb of 247
Medici family 245
meditation 128, 248, 252, 267, 284
Meditations on the Life of Christ 42, 128, 132–3, 138, 166, 168, 191, 252, 258–9, 277, 279, 287, 305, 307–8
Meeting at the Golden Gate 51, 32, 53, 64, 242
memory 231–3
merchants’ literacy 274
Mercy 42, 138
Mesnil, Jacques 327
mess 97
Messiah 24, 102, 105
metaphor 13, 37, 133, 139–40, 202, 231–2
Michelangelo 157, 275, 290
Middeldorf, Ulrich 315
midwives 99
Milanesi, Gaetano 300
Milvian Bridge, battle of the 6
mime 12, 275
mimesis 4
mimetic narrative 287
miracle 7, 11–12, 56, 81, 159, 164, 216, 218, 290
Miracles of our Lady 277
mirror, used by Brunelleschi 180, 183, 185, 190
Mob 34, 36–7, 61, 256
Mocking of Jesus 21, 24, 33, 32–3, 65–6, 67–8, 118, 118, 124–7, 128, 130, 131, 133, 133, 139, 281, 276–7, 288–9
modelling of surfaces 78
models for relief sculpture 89
moderation 77, 309
modern art xi
Molho, Anthony 327
moment
in time 58, 156, 160, 163, 202, 223–4, 243, 281, 283–4
pregnant 70, 139
money bag 160
moral 2, 4, 37, 79–80, 138, 166
confusion 112
dilemma 129–30, 139
order 112–13
purposes in art xii
significance of style 223
virtues 78
mosaic 5, 77, 158–9
in Baptistery, Florence 191
Moses Striking the Rock 6
movement parallax, see also parallax 83, 144
Murray, Penelope 295
mute images 241, 287
Naddaf, Ramona 295
Nanni di Banco 187
narration, indirect 4
narrative xixiii, 17, 33, 36, 77–8, 80, 112, 115, 117, 122, 124, 126, 132–3, 135, 138–9, 144, 163, 177, 184, 211, 216, 223, 227, 230, 235, 243, 247, 287, 294,
cycle 53
devices 113
standpoint 289
first person 287
subjective 287
third person 287
narrator 48, 95, 287
external 287–8
literary 287
omniscient 287
subjective 288
National Gallery, London 112
Nativity of Jesus 49, 71, 91, 95, 96, 98–101, 98–101, 102, 108, 110, 119, 140, 231, 283, 289
naturalism xiii, 63, 65, 78, 117, 119, 133, 151, 153, 186, 194, 212–3, 218, 225, 227, 251–2
nature 78, 270
Navicella 77, 158–9, 158–9, 164, 205, 290, 317
negation 47, 59, 81, 130, 337
negative statements 285
Nettleship, R. L. 295
New Testament 5–6, 245
Nicodemus 8
Noah’s Ark 6, 236
non–naturalism 126, 136, 220, 252,
notary 274
novel 289
novelty 270, 286
oblique viewpoint 20, 63, 70–1, 83, 86–7, 88–90, 101, 108, 109, 110, 115, 117, 119, 121, 127, 132, 139–42, 144, 151, 154, 156–7, 163, 197, 202, 220, 224, 229, 259, 288, 290
obscurity 13, 83, 277
Offner, Richard 309
Old Sacristy, San Lorenzo 245
Old Testament 5, 175, 227, 236, 245
Or San Michele 150, 181, 228, 236, 245
Orcagna, Andrea 150, 150, 188, 195, 197
Order 25, 31–4, 35–6, 63, 83, 126, 136, 139–40, 254
breakdown of 139–40
moral 112–3
visual 118
original sin 222
Orthodoxy 157
orthogonal lines 177, 184, 186, 195, 201, 211, 213, 224
Overlapping of forms 27, 31, 69, 83, 87, 99, 101, 120–2, 123, 129, 143–4, 151–2, 154, 156, 164, 170, 186, 195–6, 211–3, 218, 224, 229, 292, 315
over-the-shoulder views 124, 135, 139, 143–4, 154, 197, 288
Ovetari Chapel, Padua 251, 332
Padua 245
painter from Crete, books belonging to 274
palace 64, 239, 255
of Pilate 34
of the High Priests 25–6, 35
of Scrovegni family, Padua 42
Palazzo
dei Priori, Florence 181
dei Signori, Florence 181, 186
Palm Sunday 53
Panofsky, Erwin 177, 319
Pantheon, Rome 175
Paolo and Francesca, story of 3
papacy 209, 223
papal curia 279
paradise 42
parallax
binocular 293
movement 83, 144, 196–7, 224, 230–1, 243, 293
parallels 83
Parronchi, Alessandro 230
Passion of Jesus 20, 21, 22, 25–4, 26, 28–51, 55, 43, 62, 67–9, 76, 100, 115, 118, 118–20, 120–2, 124, 125–6. 128 128–9, 151, 132–3, 155, 136, 138–40, 144, 175, 247, 252, 267, 277, 281–3, 290
Passion pulpit, San Lorenzo 262, 283
passions 139
passover 27–8
Pater, Walter 294
pavement 185–6, 195–6, 201
Peace 42, 213
Pelikan, J. 297, 304
Pentecost 43, 81, 248
perception 83, 100, 230
of space 292
peripateia 243
personification 139, 285
perspectival coherence 190
perspective 7, 63, 67, 78, 83, 115, 117, 120, 122, 133, 140, 142, 156–7, 182–3, 194, 205, 223–5, 234–6, 242, 249, 253, 260, 267, 317
construction 251
diagram of 178
correct geometric construction for 178, 196, 224, 25
aerial or atmospheric 213, 224, 293
false 27
geometric 86–7, 89, 100, 175–90, 194, 196
history of 176, 186
invention of 175–7, 180, 182, 326
Peruzzi Chapel 141, 141, 157, 191, 215, 220
Pharoah’s Dream 237
philology 273
philosophical painting 271, 334
philosophy 4–5
photography of works of art xii–iii, 78, 85–6, 89, 97, 98, 117–9, 120, 122, 124, 127 140, 164, 220, 310, 332, 251, 262
Piccolomini altar, Siena Cathedral 157
pictorial
narrative 18, 47, 81, 85, 97, 110, 155, 157, 176, 283–4, 287–9
storyteller 284
storytelling 248, 284
style 78, 81
tradition 259
picture 6, 10, 12
plane 185
Piero della Francesca 189
Pilate 22, 25, 27–32, 34, 36–7, 65–6, 69, 70–1, 127–8, 253–8, 267, 279
wife of 69, 255
pillar of justice 32, 34
Pippo Spano 206
Pisa 206
Pisa Cathedral xiii, 85
Pisano, Nicola 87, 90–1, 135
workshop of 90
Pistoia 80, 110
planar 156–7
planes 151
Plato 2–4, 11–12, 20, 36, 103, 138, 287–8, 295
Republic 2, 4, 20, 80
platonic 80
platonist 12
pleasure 13
plot 5, 105, 132, 243, 279
reversal of 243
Podro, Michael 251, 294
poets 13
points of view 133
political prisoner 69
Pope 205, 209, 223
Pope–Hennessy, John 87, 310
praetorium 253–4
Prague university 223
preaching 39
pregnant moment 70, 139, 225, 284
pregnant phase 156, 171
Presentation
of Jesus in the Temple 135
of the Virgin in the Temple 53, 144
Pride and Prejudice 337
priest 27, 32, 46, 52, 54, 61, 64, 69, 78, 91–2, 105, 124, 145, 255
primitivism 251
privily 105
probability and necessity 5, 36, 48, 81, 138, 284, 296
problem solving 271–2, 286
programme 20, 158, 209, 227, 302
progress in art xiii, 117, 234
progression 262, 264, 271
prontezza 212, 284
prophecy 96
prophet 101, 227, 236
Protestantism 208
psychoanalysis 285
psychological inwardness 163
Psychology 36, 154, 170, 225, 233
pulpit 89, 92, 97, 102
Pisa Baptistery 87
Pisa cathedral 66, 100, 115–6, 116, 117, 133, 138, 140, 218, 248, 251, 260, 281–2
Pisa Cathedral, diagrams 119, 123
St Andrea Pistoia xiii, 85, 86, 91–2, 115–7, 119, 126, 133, 138–9, 197, 272, 289
Siena Cathedral 90
scroll 94
Pulpits 290
in San Lorenzo 175, 245–7, 246, 249–50, 266, 279, 282–3
Purgatorio X 101–2, 278, 334
Puttfarken, Thomas 294, 319, 333
puzzling out 13, 83, 127, 267, 269, 271, 286–7
quatrefoil 149, 151, 228
quattrocento style 157
Raising
of Lazarus 5, 46, 49, 56, 57–8 58, 78, 159, 163, 163–4, 171, 215, 276, 279, 305
of Theophilus’s Son 206, 215–20, 217–8, 222–4, 256, 279, 283
read xi, 12, 17, 36, 106
read story 242
reader 6, 105, 280, 287
reader, active 13
reading 108
images like a book 36, 81
miracles 12
pictures 7, 11–13, 69
reason 80
receding lines 194, 250
recession 292
recognition of subject 127, 276
Reformation 208, 277
Regola del Goremo di Cura Familiare by Giovanni Dominica 276
relationships 286
relief 127, 151, 157, 220
carving of 89–90, 117, 121, 139
levels of 195, 224, 242–3, 249
sculpture xiii, 85–7, 88–9, 97, 102, 140, 163, 194–5, 202, 230, 247, 249, 289
sculpture in Purgatory 101–2, 272, 283
religious
doctrine 170
instruction xi, 5–7, 278
paintings 276
stories 275
Renaissance xi, 3–4, 6, 266, 269, 276–7, 281–2, 287, 319
progress 117
reported speech 4, 103
representation 272
in dreams 285
of abstract ideas 208
of absence 240
of complex mental states 272
of conspiracy 240, 275
of deception 275
of dreams 275, 314
of feelings 275
of legal reasoning 225
of negatives 240, 275, 285
of prophecy 98–9, 275
questions 232
of speech 98, 207–8, 232
of thought 275
of time 282
of Ulysses’ madness 272
representational techniques xi
representing stories
conventions of 6, 97, 108, 117, 128, 153, 155, 163, 255, 271, 277, 281–3
formula for 127, 163–4, 206, 209, 215, 248, 271, 275–6, 278–9, 281, 287, 334
reserved narration 288
restraint 70, 77, 79, 83, 288
Resurrection 5, 43, 49–50, 81, 139, 175, 218, 222, 247–9, 253, 264–5, 267, 282
of the body 248
pulpit, San Lorenzo 250, 262, 283
rhyme 63, 76, 83, 117, 130, 133, 201
riddles 117, 207
Ringbom, Sixten 297, 311, 314, 336
ritual 94
Roman
architecture 253
battle relief 160
coins 26
Empire 6
justice 33, 36, 254
Law 26, 31–2
Missal 92
sculpture 110
romance 3
Rome 5, 209
rule for perspective 180–2, 185–6
rules 122, 269–70
for artists 269
of storytelling 20
Rushdie, Salman 295
Ruskin, John 54, 65, 70, 77, 282–3, 294, 305
sacred domain 43, 76
Sacrifice of Isaac 5, 152–4, 149, 155, 193, 202, 211–2, 277, 281, 284, 288, 290
Sta Costanza, Rome 6, 297
Sta Croce, Florence 141, 144, 155, 164, 168, 182, 182, 190,
Sta Maria del Carmine, Florence 179
Sta Maria della Carita 42
Sta Maria Maggiore, Rome 8
Sta Maria Novella, Florence 8, 209
SS Annuziata, Florence 278
SS Peter and Paul 157
St Anthony of Padua 245
St Antoninus, Archbishop of Florence 278–9
St Augustine 11–13, 36, 80–1, 102, 270, 272, 276, 280, 286, 288, 291, 300, 312, 335
On Christian Teaching 300
St Francis of Assisi 252
St George and the Dragon, Donatello 189, 194, 196, 213
St George, Donatello 251
St Jerome 65, 66, 138, 274
St John the Baptist 142–3, 191, 201, 264, 283, 285
St John the Evangelist 245
Gospel of 24, 27, 34, 95, 111
St Joseph 43, 55, 96–8, 97–9, 290
Dream of 99, 106, 135
St Lawrence 248–50
St Luke
as patron of painters 10–11
Ghiberti 10
Gospel of 8, 10–11, 27, 29, 65, 66, 95, 168, 273, 287
St Maria del Carmine, Florence 18
St Mark,
Or San Michele, Donatello 181
Gospel of 23, 143, 159, 170, 191, 193
St Matthew’s gospel 8, 23, 34, 65, 102, 105, 143, 159, 191, 193, 206, 255, 264
St Paul 205, 216–7, 219–20, 222
St Peter 20, 21, 25–4, 22–5, 34, 37, 59, 61, 62 63, 78, 80, 118, 121, 121, 124, 126, 128, 129–30, 151, 159–60, 210, 215, 215–9, 223, 225, 255, 279
Baptising the Neophytes 215
detail from Tribute Money 215
in Cathedra 219
Or San Michele 181
Chair, feast of 218, 223
Denial of 21–2, 22–4, 118, 118, 124–5, 126, 128, 131, 132, 276, 285
Martyrdom of 215
St Peter’s Rome, old church 158
St Stephen, Or San Michele 228
Salimbeni brothers 319
salvation 81, 138
Samson 5
San Gimignano 166
San Lorenzo, Florence 245–6, 266
Old Sacristy roundels 251
San Piero a Grado, Pisa 206
sanctuary 43–4, 46, 49–55, 78, 81, 92
Santo, Padua 245
sarcophagus 90
Roman 127
Sassetta 188, 319
scaffolding for photography xii, 78, 85, 96, 117, 120, 142, 164, 220, 251,
scale 177, 185–6, 188, 194, 196–7, 224, 229, 243, 253, 292
schism in the church 208
scientist 234
script, see programme 20, 22, 30, 193
scriptural texts 279
scripturalism 278
scriptures 11, 13, 94, 96, 113
close reading of 280
in Italian translation 278
scroll 18, 124, 168
Scrovegni
Chapel, Padua xiii, 18, 401, 43, 53, 63, 80, 85, 140–2, 144, 157, 166, 175, 225, 272, 283, 285, 288–9
family 274
Enrico 39, 42, 63–4
Palace of 53
Temple of 53
sculpture 87, 101, 117, 157, 160, 285
classical/roman 124
relief sculpture 86–7, 171, 190, 197, 222, 243, 259
self restraint 79
self-portrait,
of Ghiberti 171, 243
of Masaccio 268
sentence–like image 46–7
sequence 18, 20, 25, 35–6, 42, 44, 51–2, 63, 70, 76, 80–1, 97, 99, 102–3, 106, 108, 110, 112, 119, 126, 130, 133, 135, 140, 171, 197, 219, 232, 242–3, 252, 255, 262, 279, 283, 285, 289
sequence of events 283
Serenus, Bishop of Marseilles 6
sermon 92, 94, 278
sermonic 138, 314
sex 202
shadow 224
Shaftesbury, Earl of, Characterics 282
Shakespeare 202
shallow relief 261
Shearman, John 320
Sherlock Holmes 295
Siena 17–18, 27, 37, 246, 254
Siena
baptistery font 176, 190, 191, 228, 283
cathedral xiii, 17, 18, 39, 92
Sienese Guild of Painters 10–11, 20, 213, 281
sign 11–12, 24, 56, 271, 276
silence 22
silent medium, visual images as a 102, 243, 275
similarity 23, 47, 63–4, 81, 285
simile 128–9, 133, 139
Simon, Robin 305
Simone Martini 164
simplicity 83, 248–9, 264
simultaneity 22, 108, 285
Sistine Chapel 247
skilled artisans, literacy of 274
sleight of hand 61, 83, 241
social history of art xi
society 1–2
Socrates 297
Solomon 26
Solomon and Pilate 26
Solomon and Sheba 243
Solomon’s palace 53
Son of God 22–3, 42, 58, 97–8, 168
Son of Man 61, 255
space 97, 108, 117, 133, 150–1, 154, 196, 231
between figures 195
perception of 292
Spanish Chapel, Sta Maria Novella 186
spatial representation 86–7
spectator 18, 34, 36, 43, 46, 48, 59, 61, 65, 70, 80–1, 83, 101–2, 117, 122, 127, 129, 132, 138–41, 144–5, 151, 154, 156–7, 177–8, 183, 185–6, 190, 195–7, 212, 219–20, 224–5, 231, 233, 240–1, 243, 249–52, 261, 266–7, 269–72, 274, 276–7, 280–3, 284, 286–9, 290
active 11, 13
capturing the attention of 235, 242, 269–72, 286
detached 130, 154, 290
supplies the logic 285–6
spectator-narrator 130, 286–8
splendour 286
spotlight 218
Spufford, Peter 316
squashed relief 86–7
Stage 283–4
states of mind 243
stereoscopic 78
steward 237
story 1–7, 10, 39, 47, 55, 59, 271, 86, 92, 94–5, 102–3, 105, 112, 170, 211, 219, 231, 236, 287, 290
storyteller 48, 94, 97
storytelling xiii, 1–4, 22, 65–6, 154, 225, 241, 282, 288
images 272
rules of 20
Stubblebine, James 304
style
of narrative 103
of storytelling 4
history of xi
pictorial 77–8
subject 132, 138, 157, 229, 247, 254, 264, 275–6
subjective narrative 287–8
Suitors Waiting for the Rods to Blossom 289
sun, movement of 78
Susanna and the Elders 6
sword 61, 61, 79–80
Sybil
first 93 96, 96–7, 311
second 99, 101, 101–2, 104, 108
Sybils 111
Symbol
of authority 136
of power 254
synagogue at Dura–Europos 296
syntax 53, 81, 285–6
tableau 54
Taddeo Gaddi 144–5, 164, 168, 212, 242
Tatian 278
tax 209–10, 225, 279, 328
collector 209–213, 222, 224
technology of art 142
telling stories 275
telling the story to oneself 287
Temperance 43–4, 61, 7–80, 79, 83, 139, 212
temperate 138, 156, 171, 225, 284
style 80, 156
Temple
of Jerusalem 76
of Solomon 44, 46, 48–9, 50–1, 53–6, 81, 255, 306–7
temporal
continuity 284
sequence 47
temporality 70, 133, 176, 231, 266
of images 102
of looking 283, 290
Temptation of Adam and Eve 205, 222, 231, 243, 232
tents 236
terrestrial domain 76
territory in the courtroom, battle for 33
text 206, 275
image as 7
Theophilus 9, 225
Palace of 188
theory of art xi
third person narrative 287
Thomas à Kempis 252
three dimensionality of relief sculpture 163, 243, 263
threshold 27, 54
throne 25, 42, 128–9, 136, 139, 168, 187, 216, 218, 223, 253
Timanthes 271, 290
Sacrifice of Iphigenia 158, 271
time 36, 46, 102, 153, 170, 231–2, 242, 272, 282–4, 317
involved in looking 283
time-consuming attention 272
Timor 213
title 6, 276, 336
titles for movies 95
toll 207
tonus rectus 92
torture 69, 249
town hall 18
tradition xiii, 157, 166, 195, 197, 251, 259, 279
of storytelling 266
tragedy 80, 202, 286
Trajan
and the Widow 272
Column of 122, 123
transitional phase 166
translation, Anglo-Saxon Vulgate 277
of story into images 279
of bible into Italian and other languages 277–8, 282
travesty of justice 34
Trial of Jesus xiii, 17–18, 20, 21, 234, 23–5, 26, 2831, 335, 33–7, 43, 47–8, 55, 70, 126, 128, 132, 216, 248–9, 253–8, 262, 267, 275–9, 283–5, 288, 290, 304
Tribute Money 205–16, 210, 222–4, 241, 277–8, 280, 283–4, 298
trigonometry 185
Trinity, Sta Maria Novella, Masaccio 179, 185, 188–9, 325
triumph of death 249
triumphal arch 42, 46
truth 42, 138
Tuscany 157
tyranny 108
tyrant 80
castle of 197
Uccello, Paolo 181, 183, 187
Ulysses 290
undercutting 121
understanding 13, 30, 33, 290
vanishing
area 189
lines 177, 182
point 176, 185, 188, 194, 229
variety 270, 286
Vasari, Giorgio 157, 181, 183, 187, 205, 219, 233, 239, 242, 247, 310
description of Donatello’s Annunciation 283
veil 130, 271
vendetta 80
verba visibilia 13, 81, 102, 272
verbal text 13
Verdon, Timothy 294
Vermes, Geza 65, 303
Vespasiano da Bisticci 247
Vices 78, 80, 132, 139
Victoria and Albert Museum 90, 92, 123, 246
viewpoint 49, 70, 86–9, 92, 97, 99, 101–2, 106, 108, 112, 120, 122, 126, 129–30, 132, 139–40, 142, 144, 151, 155–7, 163–4, 169–70, 186, 194, 197, 220, 222, 224–5, 229, 249–51, 253, 260, 266–7, 77, 288–90, 310
violence 108, 132, 232–3, 290
Virgin
and Child, Clarisse Madonna 112
Mary 7–11, 17–18, 42–4, 52–5, 64, 97–102, 33, 97101, 108, 110–11, 151, 166, 168–71, 260–1, 276, 281, 183, 289–90
Procession of 54, 57, 37
Virtues 51, 78
and Vices 44, 64, 81, 139, 274, 277, 285
virtuosity, artistic 276
visibile parlare 102, 272
visible
language 102, 275
speech 13, 269, 272
Visitation 43
visual
arts 11–12
image 102
literacy 276
order 118
signs 272
visualisation 56, 238, 281, 285
visualizer, artist as 10, 273
voice 231–2, 242
Von Einem, Herbert 327
Voragine, Jacopo de 22, 25, 30, 37, 299
Vulgate 20, 25, 65, 274, 277–8
wealth 236
Welliver, Warman 328
White, John 87, 231, 300–1, 310–12, 319, 323, 326, 332–3
wilderness 46, 49, 54
Wilkinson, John 307
Williams, John 296
wills 277
window, see also frame 178, 186–7, 190, 292
Wisdom of Solomon 302
witness 7, 10–11
Wolff, Christoff 312
women’s literacy 274
Wood, Peter 297
Wool Guild 228
word 95, 275
worship 39, 288
of images 6
writer 10, 275
writing 6
Wycliffe, John 223
Zeus 3