The Place of Narrative

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: The Place of Narrative 1: Medieval Protocols 2: The Cycle in the Private Chapel, 1300-1350 3: Narrative in the Public Domain, 1340-1400 4: Nationalism and the Festival Mode: The Legend of the True Cross 5: Tradition and the New Synthesis in the Early Fifteenth Century 6: Disposition as a Theopolitical Tool: Fra Filippo, Mantegna, Piero della Francesca 7: Consolidation of Tradition: The Sistine Chapel and Beyond 8: The Expanded Field and Its Narrative Implications 9: New Continuities: Narrative Disposition in the Sixteenth Century The Computer Database: NARRART DATA Appendix 1: Selected Cycle Entries Appendix 2: List of Cycles by Patterns of Disposition Notes Bibliography Photographic Credits Index