Studies in The History of Medieval Italian Painting, Volume II

The four volumes of Edward Garrison's Studies, published between 1953 and 1962, represented a landmark in the study of medieval Italian painting. They made available for the first time photographs of all miniatures of the region and period concerned - principally the former Papal States and Tuscany in the twelfth century - which the author was able to track down, along with a generous selection of ornamental initials from almost every decorated manuscript he examined. The contemporary wall-paintings and panels from these regions are also illustrated and discussed. They represent one of the most valuable sources of information about twelfth-century painting in existence, and everyone interested in European art of that period has at some time found himself gratefully using them. A serious attempt has been made to get all this material into order, and the general lines of development have been set out. Together with the author's two volumes already published in our Selected Studies Series (Early Italian Painting: Selected Studies, Vols. I & II) these four volumes make available the complete corpus of Edward Garrison's work on medieval Italian painting. The two principal studies are concerned with 'Twelfth-Century Initial Styles of Central Italy' (serialized here in eleven sections) and 'Twelfth-Century Umbro-Roman painting' (serialized in six sections). Most of the non-serialized items are studies of individual manuscripts, but one should note the presence here of Supplements IV-VI to Garrison's Italian Romanesque Panel-painting: an index (Nos. I-III are available in Early Italian Painting: Selected Studies. Vol. I). The reprinting of these four volumes should be particularly welcome to art-historians, since they were originally issued in fascicule form, and many art-historical libraries lack copies. Volume II Contents: Pictorial Histories V. The Marturi Masters and Two Related Works The Christ Enthroned at Casape, with Notes on the Earlier Roman Redeemer Panels Contributions to the History of Twelfth-Century Umbro-Roman Painting. Part 1. Synthesis More about the Madonna of Sivignano Twelfth-Century Initial Styles of Central Italy: Indices for the Dating of Manuscripts. Part II. Materials. The Late Geometrical Style. The Third Quarter of the Twelfth Century. I. The Umbro-Roman and Florentine Regions Additional Giant Bibles Pictorial Histories VI. A Tuscan Bible: Florentine or Pisan? Contributions to the History of Twelfth-Century Umbro-Roman Painting II, Part II, Materials. I. Local Styles in the Late Eleventh and Early Twelfth Century. II. Cassinese Miniature Styles in Rome Two Manuscripts not Italian but Franco-Flemish Twelfth-Century Initial Styles of Central Italy: Indices for the Dating of Manuscripts, Part II, Materials. The Third Quarter of the Twelfth Century. The Pisan Region Additional Giant Bibles Pictorial Histories VII. The Pistoiese (?) Master of the First Casanatense Bible Contributions to the History of Twelfth-Century Umbro-Roman Painting III, Part II, Materials. III. Local Imitations of Transalpine Romanesque Style. IV. Precursors of the Revival Two Illustrations by the Anagni Translations Master Twelfth-Century Initial Styles of Central Italy: Indices for the Dating of Manuscripts, Part II, Materials. The Third Quarter of the Twelfth Century. The Volterran Region Pictorial Histories VIII. The Florentine S. Maria del Fiore Bible. Contributions to the History of Twelfth-Century Umbro-Roman Painting IV, Part II, Materials. V. The Italian-Byzantine-Romanesque Fusion in the First Quarter of the Twelfth Century Knut Berg, An Illustrated Florentine Bible Dated 1140 Addenda ad Indicem IV A Pistoiese Homilary in Prato Illustrated by the First Casanatense Bible Master Twelfth-Century Initial Styles of Central Italy: Indices for the Dating of Manuscripts VIII, Part II, Materials. The Third Quarter of the Twelfth Century. The Lucchese Region Additional Giant Bible