Millard Meiss
American art historian specializing in medieval and early Renaissance European painting and architecture; author of influential works including Painting in Florence and Siena after the Black Death and French Painting in the Time of Jean de Berry.
Books
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1. Painting In Florence And Siena After The Black Death
The book analyzes how the Black Death reshaped painting in mid-14th-century Florence and Siena, arguing that demographic, political, economic, and religious upheavals altered patronage, subject matter, and style. It traces a rise in public and private devotional commissions and a turn toward more dramatic, emotionally charged narrative and spatial realism in Florence, alongside Siena’s continued but evolving Gothic elegance, and supports these claims with documentary research and close visual readings of frescoes and panel paintings produced in the decades after the plague.
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