@inbook{58d456909769480a9a1cd85aa4e79cf5,
title = "Barna da Siena",
abstract = "This text offers a critical assessment of Barna da Siena, an enigmatic figure traditionally celebrated as a premier 14th-century master of the Sienese School. Analysis focuses on the intense emotionalism, dramatic narrative linearity, and plastic substance defining the works historically attributed to him, which expanded upon the aesthetic idioms of Simone Martini. Particular scholarly focus is directed toward the monumentally complex New Testament fresco cycle in the Collegiata of San Gimignano, evaluating its iconographic innovations and profound expression of human pathos. Crucially, the text addresses the profound modern historiographical debates and skepticism surrounding Barna{\textquoteright}s actual historical existence{\textemdash}originally codified by Lorenzo Ghiberti and Giorgio Vasari{\textemdash}examining how contemporary connoisseurship increasingly reassigns this dramatic corpus to the workshop or circle of Lippo Memmi and related Trecento masters.",
keywords = "Barna da Siena, Historiographical Debates, Sienese Painting, Italy, Siena, San Gimignano, Tuscany, Fresco Painting, Mural Painting, Simone Martini, Lippo Memmi, Workshop, Bottega, 14th Century, Trecento Frescoes, Medieval Art, Late Gothic Pathos, Attribution Connoisseurship, Collegiata di Santa Maria Assunta (San Gimignano), Lorenzo Ghiberti, Giorgio Vasari",
author = "Flavio Boggi",
year = "2004",
doi = "10.4324/9781315161129",
language = "English",
isbn = "9780415939294",
volume = "1",
series = "Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages",
publisher = "Routledge",
number = "9",
pages = "97--98",
editor = "Christopher Kleinhenz",
booktitle = "Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia",
address = "United Kingdom",
}