Article: Picturing the Passion in Late Medieval Italy: Narrative Painting, Franciscan Ideologies, and the Levant.(Review)

Anne Derbes. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xiv + 270pp. 167 b/w illus. $75. ISBN: 0-521-47481-7.

How does art get made? This fundamental question may have as many answers as there are works of art. The kinds of answers, however, are limited in number. Leaving aside for the moment the ultimate, imponderable answer - which resides in the genius of the individual artist - one may focus on more readily definable, even quantifiable, kinds of answers found in medium and technique, for example; or in visual traditions and precedents; or the specific instructions relating to particular commissions, which may be recorded in such documents as ...

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