Description: "This volume offers a thorough investigation of the fresco cycle-which include allegorical representations of the liberal arts, the virtues and vices, the seasons, the signs of the zodiac, and the months of the year-in relation to the papacy's growing interest in fields of worldly knowledge such as music, time, astrology, and medicine"--
Brief description: Marius B. Hauknes is assistant professor of medieval art at the University of Notre Dame. He has held the Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro Membership at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princton and an Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.