Ross G Caldwell
Hi Mary,
Michael quoted these in post number 39, in extenso.
I don't have this book (shame on me) but I do have her "Art and Authority in Renaissance Milan" (1995).
Ross
Teheuti said:I believe Michael & Ross have mentioned Evelyn S. Welch's _Art in Renaissance Italy_ but I don't see their quoting this:
"In 1396 Milan's city statues banned depictions on the town hall: 'Since certain images are painted on the walls of the Palazzo Nuovo of the commune of Milan, representing false witnesses and corrupt notaries, merchants and money changers, and although they seem to be made for the purpose of confounding and defaming frauds, yet they disgrace and defame not only the authors of the deceits themselves, but also the whole city in the eyes of visitors and foreigners; for when the latter see these images, they imagine and are almost convinced that the majority of citizens can barely be trusted, and are involved in great falsehoods; and so it is decreed that all these pictures be removed, and that no one should be painted in future.' p. 218.
Welch further notes that by the mid-fifteenth century Milan was still using the immagini infamanti, although they 'had shifted from illustrating financial shame to illustrating political shame.'
Michael quoted these in post number 39, in extenso.
I don't have this book (shame on me) but I do have her "Art and Authority in Renaissance Milan" (1995).
Ross