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Book Description: <DIV><DIV><DIV><P class=p2 style='MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt'>Sherwood A.<B> </B>Fehm, Jr., analyzes the paintings, provides ecclesiastical and communal documents pertaining to both the artist and his art, and presents a com plete catalogue to re create the life and to explicate the art of Luca di Tomm , the leading painter in Siena after the Black Plague of 1348.</P><P class=p3 style='MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT INDENT: 0in'> </P><P class=p3 style='MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT INDENT: 0in'>In this first full length study of Luca di Tomm , Fehm revives a neglected yet important artist who flourished during a period previously overshadowed in art history. He identifies Luca s achieve ments and relates them to the rich tradi tion of Sienese painting. Placing Luca in the fourteenth century Italian tradition, Fehm briefly outlines the careers of the four great Sienese painters of the first half of the century: Duccio di Boninsegna, Simone Martini, and the brothers Ambrogio and Pietro Lorenzetti, the art ists who most influenced Luca.</P><P class=p3 style='MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT INDENT: 0in'> </P><P class=p3 style='MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT INDENT: 0in'>In addition to the detailed catalogue of Luca s works, which is divided into Ac cepted Works, Doubtful Attributions and Shopworks, and Lost Works, Fehm estab lishes for the first time an accurate chro nology. The study is completed with photographs of all of Luca s paintings, many of them taken specifically for this book. For close investigation, specific de tails from a number of the more impor tant works are illustrated.</P></DIV>

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