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Making Siena: Art and State Formation, 1404 - 1487.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Making Siena: Art and State Formation, 1404 - 1487./
Author:	Wiens, Gavin T.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2019,
Description:	422 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-08, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International81-08A.
Subject:	Art history. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=27726288
ISBN:	9781392746066

Making Siena: Art and State Formation, 1404 - 1487.
Wiens, Gavin T.

Making Siena: Art and State Formation, 1404 - 1487. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019 - 422 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-08, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Johns Hopkins University, 2019.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This study examines the fifteenth-century urban renewal of Siena, Italy by engaging with the recent work of art historians who have approached the built environment not as a static background but as a medium that actively shaped the meaning and experience of urban life. The cityscape has begun to be understood as a dynamic system of relations rather than as a static image. Still, questions surrounding the role played by the visual arts within such a system remain barely charted territory. Taking these developments as a point of departure, this dissertation addresses the use of public art to shape the distinctive character of Siena's revamped topography. The project also draws upon previous studies dealing with questions surrounding spatial praxis and the production of ritualized space. More broadly it brings an art historical perspective to bear on urban renewal projects, allowing for an improved understanding of how images established connections between different sites, defined space, and shaped conceptions of civic identity. In this way it contributes to the broader literature on urbanization and state formation during the late medieval period.The dissertation takes the form of four case studies. The first chapter, "Hydrosolidarity," characterizes the development of Siena's water supply network as an explicit manifestation of the centralizing tendencies of state formation. In the second chapter, "Scopic Form," I explore the roles played by public works of art in the production of surveilled spaces throughout the city. The third chapter, "Real Presence," examines Bernardino of Siena's creation of a trigram inscribed with the letters YHS, an abbreviation of the Holy Name of Jesus, in relation to the Franciscan friar's theorization of the trigram in Eucharistic terms. In the final chapter,"Vecchiezza," I situate the transformation of images of local saints as integral components in the fashioning of a civic identity for Siena as a gerontocracy.This study proposes new ways of thinking about the productive capacities of art in the processes of state formation. It considers the political potential of art making less from the perspective of how the state can be "symbolized" or "represented," and more in terms of how it might function as a ritualistic practice of bringing forth.

ISBN: 9781392746066Subjects--Topical Terms:

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