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Author : Maria DePrano
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108416054
This book examines a Renaissance Florentine family's art patronage, even for women, inspired by literature, music, love, loss, and religion.
Author : Stefanie Solum
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351536509
Long obfuscated by modern definitions of historical evidence and art patronage, Lucrezia Tornabuoni de? Medici?s impact on the visual world of her time comes to light in this book, the first full-length scholarly argument for a lay woman?s contributions to the visual arts of fifteenth-century Florence. This focused investigation of the Medici family?s domestic altarpiece, Filippo Lippi?s Adoration of the Christ Child, is broad in its ramifications. Mapping out the cultural network of gender, piety, and power in which Lippi?s painting was originally embedded, author Stefanie Solum challenges the received wisdom that women played little part in actively shaping visual culture during the Florentine Quattrocento. She uses visual evidence never before brought to bear on the topic to reveal that Lucrezia Tornabuoni - shrewd power-broker, pious poetess, and mother of the 'Magnificent' Lorenzo de? Medici - also had a profound impact on the visual arts. Lucrezia emerges as a fascinating key to understanding the ways in which female lay religiosity created the visual world of Renaissance Florence. The Medici case study establishes, at long last, a robust historical basis for the assertion of women?s agency and patronage in the deeply patriarchal and artistically dynamic society of Quattrocento Florence. As such, it offers a new paradigm for the understanding, and future study, of female patronage during this period.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 027104814X
To whom should we ascribe the great flowering of the arts in Renaissance Italy? Artists like Botticelli and Michelangelo? Or wealthy, discerning patrons like Cosimo de' Medici? In recent years, scholars have attributed great importance to the role played by patrons, arguing that some should even be regarded as artists in their own right. This approach receives sharp challenge in Jill Burke's Changing Patrons, a book that draws heavily upon the author's discoveries in Florentine archives, tracing the many profound transformations in patrons' relations to the visual world of fifteenth-century Florence. Looking closely at two of the city's upwardly mobile families, Burke demonstrates that they approached the visual arts from within a grid of social, political, and religious concerns. Art for them often served as a mediator of social difference and a potent means of signifying status and identity. Changing Patrons combines visual analysis with history and anthropology to propose new interpretations of the art created by, among others, Botticelli, Filippino Lippi, and Raphael. Genuinely interdisciplinary, the book also casts light on broad issues of identity, power relations, and the visual arts in Florence, the cradle of the Renaissance.
Author : Francis William Kent,Patricia Simons,John Christopher Eade
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015011902890
Patronage, in its broadest sense, has been established as one of the dominant social processes of pre-industrial Europe and has more recently been examined by historians as a comprehensive system of patron-client structures which permeated society and social relations. Focusing specifically on the city of Florence, these essays explore the new understanding of Renaissance Italy as a 'patronage society.'
Author : Katherine A. McIver,Cynthia Stollhans
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Art
ISBN : 1599103087
"Sixteen essays by an international group of scholars that examine the role of noble women as patrons of architecture and music in early modern Italy and that explore the behavior of woman art patrons and artists involved in the creation of art and architecture"--
Author : Louise Bourdua
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521281288
Louise Bourdua examines how Franciscan church decoration developed between 1250 and 1400 by focusing on three important churches. She argues that local Franciscan friars were more interested in their personal conception of artistic programs than following models of decoration issued officially from the mother church at Assisi. Lay patrons also had considerable input into the decoration programs. Bourdua demonstrates how archival documentation and art can be combined to extend our understanding of the Franciscan art programs.
Author : Vincenzo Sorrentino
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000569056
This book tells the story of the Del Riccio family in Florence in the early modern period, investigating the cultural mediations fostered by the family between Florence, Rome, and Naples, as well as shedding light on the intellectual and social exchanges between different regions of Italy and on the creation of foreign nations within the main Italian cities. These social and cultural dimensions are further explored through the study of the obsessive persistence of the family’s relationship with Michelangelo Buonarroti, exhibited both publicly, in the Florentine and Neapolitan family chapels, and privately in their homes. The main achievement of this study is to move the focus from the ruling power, the Medici family and the immediate members of their court, to a Florentine middle-class family and its social mobility: this shift from the conventional narrative to a distributed microhistory is fundamental to better assess the use of images and artworks in early modern Florence and abroad. The aesthetic and stylistic choices in the use of art and art display made by the Del Riccio reveal a deep awareness of the substantial differences in taste and meaning between different cities of the Italian peninsula. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual culture, and Renaissance studies.
Author : Adrian W. B. Randolph,Adrian W.R. Randolph
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300092121
Randolph shows how "engaging" political symbols were grounded in a revolutionary way in amorous discourses that drew on metaphors of affection, desire, courtship, betrothal, marriage, homo- and hetero-eroticism, and procreation."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : John T. Paoletti,Gary M. Radke
Publisher : Perigee Trade
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Art patronage
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114551042
"Art, Power, and Patronage in Renaissance Italy has a freshness and breadth of approach that sets the art in its context, exploring why it was created and who commissioned the palaces, cathedrals, paintings, and sculptures. For, as the authors claim, Italian Renaissance artists were no more solitary geniuses than are most architects and commercial artists today." "This book covers not only the foremost artistic centers of Rome and Florence. Here too are Venice and the Veneto, Assisi, Siena, Milan, Pavia, Genoa, Padua, Mantua, Verona, Ferrara, Urbino, and Naples - each city revealing unique political and social structures that influenced its artistic styles." "The book includes genealogies of influential families, listings of popes and doges, plans of cities, a time chart, a bibliography, a glossary, and an index."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Rebekah Compton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 637 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108916059
In this volume, Rebekah Compton offers the first survey of Venus in the art, culture, and governance of Florence from 1300 to 1600. Organized chronologically, each of the six chapters investigates one of the goddess's alluring attributes – her golden splendor, rosy-hued complexion, enchanting fashions, green gardens, erotic anatomy, and gifts from the sea. By examining these attributes in the context of the visual arts, Compton uncovers an array of materials and techniques employed by artists, patrons, rulers, and lovers to manifest Venusian virtues. Her book explores technical art history in the context of love's protean iconography, showing how different discourses and disciplines can interact in the creation and reception of art. Venus and the Arts of Love in Renaissance Florence offers new insights on sight, seduction, and desire, as well as concepts of gender, sexuality, and viewership from both male and female perspectives in the early modern era.
Author : Natalie Tomas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015057586383
Earlier studies on the Medici family and its women have provided biographical details but this volume is the first for many years that focuses upon how and why their gender affected their access to power and the manner in which those women understood and exercised that power.
Author : Giovanni Ciappelli,Patricia Lee Rubin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2000-04-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521643007
Art, Memory and Family in Renaissance Florence examines the relationship between the production of objects and the production of memory and history in fifteenth-century Florence. Recent studies of Florence by cultural, social, political and economic historians have resulted in a considerable knowledge of family life in this period and the significance of family, kin and neighborhood in the social and political life of the city. Investigating the means and modes of formulating and recording those relationships, the essays gathered in this study consider the interconnections among society, art and memory.
Author : Sally Anne Hickson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781134777440
Analyzing the artistic patronage of famous and lesser known women of Renaissance Mantua, and introducing new patronage paradigms that existed among those women, this study sheds new light the social, cultural and religious impact of the cult of female mystics of that city in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century. Author Sally Hickson combines primary archival research, contextual analysis of the climate of female mysticism, and a re-examination of a number of visual objects (particularly altarpieces devoted to local beatae, saints and female founders of religious orders) to delineate ties between women both outside and inside the convent walls. The study contests the accepted perception of Isabella d'Este as a purely secular patron, exposing her role as a religious patron as well. Hickson introduces the figure of Margherita Cantelma and documents concerning the building and decoration of her monastery on the part of Isabella d'Este; and draws attention to the cultural and political activities of nuns of the Gonzaga family, particularly Isabella's daughter Livia Gonzaga who became a powerful agent in Mantuan civic life. Women, Art and Architectural Patronage in Renaissance Mantua provides insight into a complex and fluid world of sacred patronage, devotional practices and religious roles of secular women as well as nuns in Renaissance Mantua.
Author : Cynthia Lawrence
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1999-12-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0271019697
While most of the projects discussed are consistent with the period's male-sanctioned concept of female patronage as an expression of conjugal devotion or dynastic promotion, at the same time the women involved devised strategies that circumvented these rules, allowing them to explore the potential or art as a means of proclaiming their own identity and taste.
Author : Thomas Kuehn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107008779
This book studies family life and gender within Italy through the lens of law and legal disputes.