{"product_id":"facing-crisis-stefania-gerevini-9780884025030","title":"Facing Crisis: Art as Politics in Fourteenth-Century Venice","description":"\u003cp\u003eThough Venice emerged as a leading Mediterranean power in the Trecento, the city faced a series of crises during a brief but cataclysmic period coinciding with Andrea Dandolo's dogeship (1343-1354): earthquakes, disease, fierce military conflicts, and dramatic political and institutional tensions had the republic on edge. It was nevertheless precisely at this time that the government sponsored the ambitious and sumptuous artistic campaigns in San Marco that are at the heart of this book: a reliquary-chapel, a new baptistery, and a folding altarpiece, all masterpieces crafted with unparalleled technical skill, blending Byzantine and Italianate visual forms. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFar from being mere artistic commissions, these works were affirmative political interventions that interrogated the meaning of community, authority, and (shared) political leadership at a time when those notions were unsettled. Looking beyond established concepts of triumph and imperialism, \u003ci\u003eFacing Crisis\u003c\/i\u003e situates the artistic interactions between Byzantium and Venice into ongoing processes of state formation and attests to the power of images to inform--and transform--political imaginations in troubled times. This study thus offers new insights into how medieval communities across the Mediterranean understood and responded to uncertainty through the visual, and, in doing so, probes the value of \"crisis\" as a methodological framework.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stefania Gerevini\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0884025039\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780884025030\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Dumbarton Oaks Research Library \u0026amp; Collection\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/11\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 252\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Stefania Gerevini","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46571214668031,"sku":"9780884025030","price":90.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_faf37012-9fd8-4588-bb0b-d9d9e28dcdee.jpg?v=1738807576","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/facing-crisis-stefania-gerevini-9780884025030","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}