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Étiqueté : St Francis of Assisi

Actualité de la recherche en histoire de l’art de la Renaissance / Parutions

Parution : Ryan Thornton, Franciscan Poverty and Franciscan Economic Thought (1209-1348), Brill, 2023

When Francis of Assisi started to use his family’s resources for religious purposes, his father took him to court. It was there that Francis dispossessed himself of everything and began a new life that soon inspired others to follow. Within a century, members of this Order of Friars Minor were among the first to dedicate complete treatises to discussions of buying, selling, and the whole of human exchange that is known as economics. The natural...

Actualité de la recherche en histoire de l’art de la Renaissance / Parutions

Parution : Margaret Pont, “An Evocation of the Basilica of St Francis of Assisi”, Lausanne, Skira, 2022

  A beautiful homage to the influence of St Francis and the masterworks by Giotto, Cimabue and others in the Basilica of Assisi This richly illustrated hardcover volume focuses on the exquisitely detailed beauty of the artworks by Cimabue, Giotto, Simone Martini and Pietro Lorenzetti that adorn the Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi and the town of Assisi in the heart of Italy’s Umbria region, animating the profound humanism and affirmative energy that St...