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Title: The Place of Narrative: Mural Decoration in Italian Churches, 431-1600 by Marilyn Aronberg Lavin ISBN: 0-226-46960-3 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: December, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $50.00

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Average Customer Rating: 3 (2 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: Interesting but not perfect
Comment: Read my review with the following caveat: I have absolutely no training in art history and most of my reading in art has been in the field of icons.

This book is useful in providing a structuring principle for the visual art in Italian Churches - I had previously only seen materials about the organization of the visual art in Orthodox Churches. I appreciated the time range of the book as it covers both the conquest of the Eastern Church by Islam (sending Eastern Christians fleeing to the West) and the split between the Orthodox and Catholic Churches. The description / interpretation of the narrative scenes is sufficiently detailed to teach a neophyte how to recognize the event being portrayed. After the world tour of art from Assisi, the section on Assisi gained clarity as I had actually seen art from a church discussed. I would have preferred more colored plates and could have done without some of the detail of the computer work supporting the book. But the latter may be important to the intended audience.

Rating: 2
Summary: looks good but disappointing
Comment: This book reads somewhat like a badly written PhD thesis. It results from collecting quantative information about religious cycles in churches, shoving them into a mathematical tool, and calling the results a book. The subject of narrative in art is fascinating, for an insightful book see: Andrews, Lew. Story and Space in Renaissance Art : The Rebirth of Continuous

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