The Renaissance Antichrist: Luca Signorelli's Orvieto Frescoes

by Jonathan B. Riess and Luca Signorelli

A major monument, Luca Signorelli's Orvieto Cathedral frescoes rendered with vigor and invective the most ambitious consideration of the Apocalypse and the Last Judgment in Italian Renaissance art. In a fresh interpretation of these frescoes, Jonathan Riess explores the intriguing, violent style and complex iconography and places the works in their richly faceted historical setting. Begun by Fra Angelico in 1447 and completed by Signorelli at the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691040869
• ISBN13: 9780691040868
• Release Date: March 1995
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 10.5"