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The Renaissance Antichrist:
Luca Signorelli's Orvieto Frescoes
Jonathan B. Riess

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction3
IThe Decline of Orvieto and the Commissioning of Luca Signorelli9
IIThe Chapel Decorations23
IIIPurgatory and Antichrist in the Cappella Nuova40
IVThe Rule of Antichrist: Form, Content, Affinities51
VSignorelli's "Many Portraits" and the Papal States in 150066
VIThe Play of Antichrist in Orvieto75
VIIThe Renaissance Antichrist (I): Saint Antoninus and Annio da Viterbo82
VIIIThe Renaissance Antichrist (II): Saint Vincent Ferrer96
IXPictorial Sources for the Rule of Antichrist105
XThe Orvieto Antichrist, the Jew, and Roman Imperial State Ceremony115
XIAntichrist, Rome, and the Jubilee of 1500135
Notes151
Index187
Illustrations193

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