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Article: Angevin art in Italy: the principal legacy of French rule over medieval Naples is a group of gothic churches. Impressive, but poorly documented, they receive detailed scrutiny in two recent books.(The Stones of Naples: Church Building in Angevin Italy, 1266-1343)(The Church of Santa Maria Donna Regina: Art, Iconography and Patronage in Fourteenth-Century Naples )(Book Review)
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The Stones of Naples, Church Building in Angevin Italy, 1266-1343 Caroline Bruzelius, Yale University Press, 45 [pounds sterling]/$75 ISBN 0 300 10039 6
The Church of Santa Maria Donna Regina: Art, Iconography and Patronage in Fourteenth-Century Naples Edited by Janis Elliott and Cordelia Warr Ashgate, 55 [pounds sterling]/$99.95 ISBN 0754634779
Amongst the Greco-Roman urban plan and the baroque accumulations of Naples there lies an imposing group of gothic churches dating from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Lack of funds at their conception, numerous earthquakes prompting later modifications--some stripped away after destruction by allied ...