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Seven Seasons in Siena (Hardback)

My Quixotic Quest for Acceptance Among Italy's Proudest People

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The World of the Early Sienese Painter (Hardback)

Drawing on Sienese archives, on early secondary sources, and on the more recent work of historians, this study situates early Sienese painters within their society and their city and provides an accou...
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The World of the Early Sienese Painter (Paperback)

Siena of the 13th and 14th centuries was one of the great cities of Europe, and its artists were among those who reshaped the nature and place of painting. Maginnis' book asks the fundamental question...
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The Civic Muse (Hardback)

Music and Musicians in Siena During the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

The city of Siena, although lacking the aristocratic and ecclesiastical patronage of music enjoyed in other northern Italian centres like Florence, nevertheless attracted first rate composers and perf...
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The Letters of Catherine of Siena (Hardback)

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Renaissance Siena (Hardback)

Art for a City

Sienese art was very deliberately shaped and sustained by the patronage of powerful and wealthy families, such as the Petrucci, Piccolomini and the Spannochi, to provide an artistic language for an am...
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Siena (Hardback)

Constructing the Renaissance City

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Garrisoning the Borderlands of Medieval Siena (Hardback)

Sant'Angelo in Colle : Frontier Castle Under the Government of the Nine (1287-1355)

Through a study of local demographies and topographies, this title considers patterns of piety, charity and patronage, and by extension, the development of art and architecture in Medieval Siena's sou...
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