This volume is dedicated to Taddeo
di Bartolo (c. 1362-1422), painter of Sienese origin who, as the
travelling master he was, spent a good part of his career moving between
Tuscany, Liguria and Umbria, serving politically and economically
powerful families, public authorities, large religious orders and
brotherhoods.


He was responsible for imposing altar polyptychs, a
sacred art form of which he was the undisputed master: the
re-composition of some of these apparatuses, such as the now dismembered
altarpiece of San Francesco al Prato in Perugia, constitutes the
fulcrum of the studies gathered in these pages.


The book also
documents Taddeo's other fields of activity: from the creation of
processional banners to small tables of private devotion, up to the
important role as fresco painter with the decoration of the chapel of
the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena. With historical essays and documentary
apparatuses, the volume edited by Marco Pierini and Gail Solberg - the
painter's most accredited scholar - is therefore a complete and updated
monograph on the figure of the artist.


Authors of the essays: Gail
Solberg, Marco Pierini, Emanuele Zappasodi, Veruska Picchiarelli, Donal
Cooper, Alberto Sartore, Machtelet Brüggen Istraëls, Christa Gardner
von Teuffel, Daniele Costanti.


Text in English and Italian.