This thesis is a monograph on the facade of the church of Santa Maria Novella in Florence, Italy. The present appearance of the facade is the result of three building campaigns effected over the period of two centuries (c1300--c1500), and two restorative campaigns conducted in the twentieth century. Each of the three major campaigns is considered in isolation, with attention to reconstructions, formal and comparative analyses, and extensive contextualization and discussion of patronage networks. The twentieth-century interventions are cursorily presented in an epilogue. Major themes developed and continued through the five chapters of the dissertation are: architecture and its projected meanings in late medieval and Renaissance Florence, urban organization, political structures, the Dominican order and the position of the Florentine chapter within local and international ecclesiastical, social and political structures.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.34772 |
| Date | January 1997 |
| Creators | Roy, Brian E. |
| Contributors | Boker, Hans Josef (advisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Doctor of Philosophy (Department of Art History.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001641201, proquestno: NQ44568, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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