Painter and Priest: Giovanni Canavesio's Visual Rhetoric and the Passion Cycle at la Brigue by Veronique Plesch

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Giovanni Canavesio, a Piedmontese artist-priest active in the last decades of the fifteenth century in the southern Alps, left behind a significant body of work, including pictorial cycles and altarpieces. This book is an in-depth analysis of his most ambitious cycle on the Passion of Christ, completed in 1492, on the walls of the pilgrimage sanctuary of Notre-Dame des Fontaines outside the French town of La Brigue.

University of Notre Dame Press, 2006.
ISBN: 9780268038885. 458 pp.
Over 150 illustrations.
Notes. Appendices.
Hardcover. Near fine in a near fine jacket.