Italian Renaissance Courts

Author : Alison Cole
Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 1780677405

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Italian Renaissance Courts by Alison Cole Pdf

In this fascinating study, Alison Cole explores the distinctive uses of art at the five great secular courts of Naples, Urbino, Ferrara, Mantua, and Milan. The princes who ruled these city-states, vying with each other and with the great European courts, relied on artistic patronage to promote their legitimacy and authority. Major artists and architects, from Mantegna and Pisanello to Bramante and Leonardo da Vinci, were commissioned to design, paint, and sculpt, but also to oversee the court's building projects and entertainments. The courtly styles that emerged from this intricate landscape are examined in detail, as are the complex motivations of ruling lords, consorts, nobles, and their artists. Drawing on the most recent scholarship, Cole presents a vivid picture of the art of this extraordinary period.

Author : Leah R. Clark
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108427722

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Collecting Art in the Italian Renaissance Court by Leah R. Clark Pdf

This book presents a new perspective on the Italian Renaissance court by examining the circulation, collection and exchange of art objects.

Author : Marco Folin
Publisher : Antique Collectors Club Dist
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 1851496432

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Courts and Courtly Arts in Renaissance Italy by Marco Folin Pdf

A complete overview of the Italian Renaissance courts covering all areas influenced by them: art, music, literature etc.

Author : Christopher Hare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1908
Category : Italy
ISBN : IOWA:31858048626893

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Courts & Camps of the Italian Renaissance by Christopher Hare Pdf

Author : Stephen Kolsky
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000938401

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Courts and Courtiers in Renaissance Northern Italy by Stephen Kolsky Pdf

The extraordinary cultural Renaissance in the northern Italian courts of the late 15th and early 16th centuries is the subject of this volume. It starts with Baldessar Castiglione's Book of the Courtier (1528) which encapsulates this sense of renewal: his experiences at court and their subsequent rewriting form the backbone of the work. The author then addresses questions of biography, gender, genre, and the varied roles of the courtier, expanding the perspective of Castiglione's text to include the lives and writings of other courtiers and patrons. What was it like to be a courtier? What were the problems associated with such a lifestyle? The importance of women in court circles is also highlighted in studies of one of the most notable of female patrons Isabella d'Este (1474-1539) and of the theoretical developments in writing about gender, stimulated by such women. Stephen Kolsky's analysis of both well-known and comparatively obscure texts brings out the diversity of practices that constituted court society and their centrality to our understanding of the Renaissance.

Author : Alison Cole
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : ART
ISBN : 1780679858

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Italian Renaissance Courts by Alison Cole Pdf

This fascinating study of Renaissance courtly art and culture in fifteenth and early sixteenth-century Italy encompasses the most recent scholarship on the courts, court art and noble values. Alison Cole not only considers the role of artists, but explores the distinctive uses to which art was put at the courts, from the smaller duchies and princely courts of Ferrara, Mantua and Urbino to the larger courts of Naples and Milan. The social, intellectual and artistic milieu of each court is brought vividly to life, along with the complex personalities of the rulers, their relationships with the civic and ecclesiastical authorities, and the role of court women as patrons of the arts. Drawing on a wide range of contemporary texts and visual material, Cole paints a rich picture of the these extraordinary courts in the moment of their greatest brilliance.

Author : Anthony F. D’Elia
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0674015525

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The Renaissance of Marriage in Fifteenth-Century Italy by Anthony F. D’Elia Pdf

Weddings in 15th-century Italian courts were grand, sumptuous affairs, often requiring guests to listen to lengthy orations given in Latin. D'Elia shows how Italian humanists used these orations to support claims of legitimacy and assertions of superiority among families jockeying for power, as well as to advocate for marriage and sexual pleasure.

Author : Alison Cole
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Art and state
ISBN : 0297833715

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Art of the Italian Renaissance Courts by Alison Cole Pdf

The first major paperback original books on art in almost two decades, aimed at the general reader and students and reflecting the most recent developments in art history.

Author : Sergio Bertelli,Franco Cardini,Elvira Garbero Zorzi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015013369163

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The Courts of the Italian Renaissance by Sergio Bertelli,Franco Cardini,Elvira Garbero Zorzi Pdf

This comprehensive study of the courts of Renaissance Italy explores every aspect of their diversity and magnificence, from Naples in the south to Monferrato in the north, from the oriental-like splendors presided over by the Swabian emperor Frederick II to the Baroque glories of the Counter-Reformation in Florence. . .Scholarly and well documented, The Courts of the Italian Renaissance vividly evokes the past and is an essential guide for the reader wishing to learn more about one of the most fascinating periods of Italian history. /

Author : Charles M. Rosenberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780521792486

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The Court Cities of Northern Italy by Charles M. Rosenberg Pdf

The Court Cities of Northern Italy examines painting, sculpture, decorative arts, and architecture produced within the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries.

Author : Laurie Schneider Adams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780429974748

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Italian Renaissance Art by Laurie Schneider Adams Pdf

"The chronology of the Italian Renaissance, its character, and context have long been a topic of discussion among scholars. Some date its beginnings to the fourteenthcentury work of Giotto, others to the generation of Masaccio, Brunelleschi, and Donatello that fl ourished from around 1400. The close of the Renaissance has also proved elusive. Mannerism, for example, is variously considered to be an independent (but subsidiary) late aspect of Renaissance style or a distinct style in its own right."

Author : Thomas V. Cohen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226112602

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Love and Death in Renaissance Italy by Thomas V. Cohen Pdf

Gratuitous sex. Graphic violence. Lies, revenge, and murder. Before there was digital cable or reality television, there was Renaissance Italy and the courts in which Italian magistrates meted out justice to the vicious and the villainous, the scabrous and the scandalous. Love and Death in Renaissance Italy retells six piquant episodes from the Italian court just after 1550, as the Renaissance gave way to an era of Catholic reformation. Each of the chapters in this history chronicles a domestic drama around which the lives of ordinary Romans are suddenly and violently altered. You might read the gruesome murder that opens the book—when an Italian noble takes revenge on his wife and her bastard lover as he catches them in delicto flagrante—as straight from the pages of Boccaccio. But this tale, like the other stories Cohen recalls here, is true, and its recounting in this scintillating work is based on assiduous research in court proceedings kept in the state archives in Rome. Love and Death in Renaissance Italy contains stories of a forbidden love for an orphan nun, of brothers who cruelly exact a will from their dying teenage sister, and of a malicious papal prosecutor who not only rapes a band of sisters, but turns their shambling father into a pimp! Cohen retells each cruel episode with a blend of sly wit and warm sympathy and then wraps his tales in ruminations on their lessons, both for the history of their own time and for historians writing today. What results is a book at once poignant and painfully human as well as deliciously entertaining.

Author : Paola Tinagli
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1997-06-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 071904054X

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Women in Italian Renaissance Art by Paola Tinagli Pdf

This is the first book which gives a general overview of women as subject-matter in Italian Renaissance painting. It presents a view of the interaction between artist and patron, and also of the function of these paintings in Italian society of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Using letters, poems, and treatises, it examines through the eyes of the contemporary viewer the way women were represented in paintings.

Author : Laura Ikins Stern
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : UCSC:32106010000708

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The Criminal Law System of Medieval and Renaissance Florence by Laura Ikins Stern Pdf

Historians of medieval and Renaissance Italy have long held that the Florentine republic fell victim to rule by oligarchy in the early fifteenth century. Now, in the first complete analysis of the criminal law system of Florence during this crucial period, Laura Ikins Stern argues that the vitality of Florentine legal institutions gives evidence of a centralized state bureaucracy strong enough to thwart the early development of a ruling oligarchy. Exploring the changing roles played by judicial officials as well as the evolution of Florentine government, Stern shows how these developments reflected broad-based change in society at large. From such primary documents as legal statutes and actual trial records, she provides a step-by-step explanation of trial procedure to offer a rare glimpse of inquisition methods in the secular world--from public fame initiation, through the weighing of various levels of proof, to the complex process of sentencing. And sheexplores the links between implementation of inquisition procedure, the development of the territorial state, and the struggle between republican institutions and the emerging oligarchy. The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science.

Author : Giancarla Periti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : ART
ISBN : 0300214235

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In the Courts of Religious Ladies by Giancarla Periti Pdf

"This fascinating study considers the poetic and mythological artworks made for elite female monastic communities in Renaissance Italy. Nuns from the patrician class, who often disregarded obligations of austerity and poverty, commissioned sensually appealing, richly made artifacts inspired by contemporary courtly culture. The works of art transformed monastic parlors, abbatial apartments, and nuns' cells into ornate settings, thereby enriching and complicating the opposition of religious and worldly spheres. This unconventional monastic and yet courtly decoration was a new form of art in the way it entangled the sacred and the profane. The artwork was intended to edify both intellectually and spiritually, as well as to delight and seduce the viewer. Based on extensive new research into primary sources, this generously illustrated book introduces a thriving female monastic visual culture that ecclesiastical authorities endeavored to suppress. It shows how this art taught its viewers to use their eyes to gain insights about the secular world beyond the convent walls. "--