Forest green cloth boards with gilt stamped spine lettering. Glossy navy and

Forest green cloth boards with gilt stamped spine lettering. Glossy navy and color-illustrated dust jacket with yellow and white lettering. xvi, 216 pp. BW and some color illustrations. Spalliera Paintings of Renaissance Tuscany defines and characterizes cycles of panel paintings that decorated patrician residences in Tuscany. It takes a fresh approach to the paintings, placing them not only in the context of Renaissance art but also in the context of the society for which they were made. It contributes to our understanding of the formal conventions of the pictures as narrative paintings designed to be seen in specific spaces within bedchambers and studies; their function, integrated with the woodwork and furniture of those spaces; and their social role, often commissioned in honor of weddings to reinforce values of patrimony, civic-mindedness, and familial duty. -Jacket.