Orsanmichele: A Medieval Grain Market and Confraternity (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004450097)

This work provides a new narrative for Orsanmichele in the era before the Renaissance. It examines Orsanmichele from the mid-thirteenth century, as the piazza transformed into the city's grain market. It considers the market's tandem confraternity, with its stunning Madonnas over three successive loggias. It examines the grain market and confraternity from a social, economic, political, and artistic perspective. It provides extensive data on the Florentine grain trade, sales at the market, and the nexus between traders, political leaders, and the confraternity. The work suggests that developments at Orsanmichele during the medieval period formed the basis for the Renaissance structure.

Author: Ito
ISBN-10: 9004450092
ISBN-13: 9789004450097
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 10/11/2023
Pages: 776
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.20w x 0.80d