Resumen de Circulation, convergence, and the worlds of Trecento panel paintings: Simone Martini in Naples
Simone Martini's panel painting of Saint Louis of Toulouse, made in Naples around 1317, is a picture "of" a world and a picture "in" a world: a fictive pictorial space in which objects and materials from elsewhere converge, and a fashioned object woven into a network of things in circulation. The present article asks how, in figuring the painting's complex relationship to these real and imagine worlds, Simone explored radical ideas about the materiality and representational work of panel painting. The article weaves together close pictorial analysis and study of primary texts to make new revelations about one of the great formal and technical achievements of the Renaissance in Italy, and to pose new questions about the place of fourteenth-century Italian painting in a world context.
