Showing Siena and the Virgin: Art and Politics in a Late Medieval City State by Diana Norman

Siena and the Virgin Fully illustrated, this book explores late medieval Siennese Marian art, how it was commissioned, created and understood. Examining political, economic and cultural relations between Sienna and the contado, the author offers a new understanding of Marian art and its political functions as an expression of Siennese civic ideology. Full description