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Siena and the Virgin: Art and Politics in a Late Medieval City State
Diana Norman

Yale University Press, 1999

This richly illustrated book explores late medieval Sienese art and its celebration of the Virgin Mary as both an object of religious affection and a focus of civic pride. The author examines how art was created, commissioned, and understood by the citizens of Siena and the surrounding contado, and she offers a new understanding of Marian art and its political function as an expression of civic ideology.

Taking Liberties (Makepeace Hedley)

11 reviews
Diana Norman

Berkley Trade, 2004

Endearing adventure/romance
This book's a keeper. Very enjoyable story of adventure and a touch of romance in England during the time of the American revolution. It revolves around two women, Diana, an artistocrat widow at odds with her son trying to help a dear American friend by finding out about her son who is a prisoner of war, and Makepeace, a former American tavern-keeper now nouveau riche, who is seeking her ...

Religious Art in Italy Set (Siena and the Virgin/Fra Filippo Lippi: The Carmelite Painter)
Megan Holmes, Diana Norman

Yale University Press, 1999

These two complementary volumes, Fra Filippo Lippi the Carmelite Painter and Siena and the Virgin: Art and Politics in a Late Medieval City State, are available for the first time as a set. The beautiful and compelling book, Fra Filippo Lippi the Carmelite Painter, shines new light on Fra Filippo Lippi's life and career, from his first paintings as a friar to later works painted outside the monastery for the Medicis and other patrons. Focusing ...

Culture and Belief in Europe 1450 - 1600: An Anthology of Sources
David Englander, Diana Norman, ...

Wiley-Blackwell, 1991

This is a wide-ranging interdisciplinary collection of material from primary sources, illustrating the relationship between cultural change and religious belief in sixteenth-century Europe. It contains more than eighty extracts drawn from a variety of genres including political, religious, philosophical and legal writing, diaries, letters, plays, poems and fiction. Some have never previously been published, others have not been reprinted since ...

Siena, Florence, and Padua: Art, Society, and Religion 1280-1400: Volume II: Case Studies

Yale University Press, 1995

This second volume focuses on major works of art produced in Siena, Florence or Padua or executed by artists associated with the three cities. The case studies include discussions of the evolution of two important building types (town halls and cathedrals); the devotional and liturgical contexts of pre-eminent 14th-century altar-pieces; interpretation of the major fresco cycles in the Arena Chapel, Padua, and the Sala dei Nove, Siena; the ...

Fitzempress' Law

1 review
Diana Norman

Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 1980

An enjoyable first book from Diana Norman (aka Ariana Franklin)
FITZEMPRESS' LAW (Hist/Mys/TT-Len, Pete, Sal-England-Cont/1100s) - G+ Norman, Diana (aka Ariana Franklin) - 1st novel St. Martin's Press, 1980, US Hardcover - ISBN: 0312294190 First Sentence: "Whassat?" Three contemporary teens set upon an elderly woman who curses them that they must use the law to save their souls. An accident results with their bodies lying in a coma in hospital ...

A Catch of Consequence (Makepeace Hedley)

13 reviews
Diana Norman

Berkley Trade, 2003

A good catch indeed, a bit like an English, girls version of "The Count of Monte Cristo"
I first started this book with little knowledge of the plot. I knew the basics, a puritan fished a noble out of the water and then there's marriage and all that good stuff. That would be a good premise for a novel, right? Well. Unfortunately, that's the premise for the first third of this novel. Really this is a bit like an English, girls version of "The Count of Monte Cristo". Makepeace ...

The Sparks Fly Upward (Makepeace Hedley)

3 reviews
Diana Norman

Berkley Trade, 2006

enjoyable late eighteenth century thriller
The Reign of Terror has engulfed France with the festive activity being the beheading of the aristocracy by Madame Guillotine; in England, though horrified by what is going on across the Channel, the Ton continues partying with no fear of their inferiors rising up. In that London atmosphere where Lord Andrew Ffoulkes hosts waltzes, Philipa feels alone with no one loving her. Her dad died two ...

Painting in Late Medieval and Renaissance Siena (1260-1555)
Diana Norman

Yale University Press, 2003

The city of Siena, one of Italy's major artistic centres, was home to many celebrated painters, among them Duccio, Simone Martini, Ambrogio and Pietro Lorenzetti, Sassetta and Beccafumi. This illustrated volume provides a survey of Sienese painting from 1260 to 1555, an era of extraordinary artistic creativity in the Tuscan city. Diana Norman addresses the style and artistic technique of Sienese painters throughout the three centuries and ...

The Vizard Mask
Diana Norman

Penguin Books Ltd, 1995

Die Brautgabe.
Diana Norman

Dtv, 1998

The Morning Gift: A Novel of Twelfth-Century England

4 reviews
Diana Norman

St. Martin's Press, 1987

fantastic and realistic medieval
Inner flap blurb time: "A Norman heiress was a chattel to be sold in marriage to the highest bidder. If one husband died she was up for sale again. Only the first of Matilda de Risle's husbands gives her anything back. His is the customary Saxon morning gift -- the present to a wife if her lord finds her sexually pleasing on their wedding night. Matilda's morning gift was Dungesey in the ...

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