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Author : Cynthia Munro Pyle
Publisher : Fenice
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015042090442
Author : Evelyn S. Welch
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300063512
Milan was one of the largest and most important cities in Renaissance Italy. Controlled by the Visconti and Sforza dynasties from 1277 until 1500, its rulers were generous patrons of the arts, responsible for commissioning major monuments throughout the city and for supporting artists such as Giovanni di Balduccio, Filarete, Bramante and Leonardo da Vinci. But the city was much more than its dukes. Milan had a distinct civic identity, one that was expressed, above all, through its neighbourhood, religious and charitable associations. This book moves beyond standard interpretations of ducal patronage to explore the often overlooked city itself, showing how the allegiances of the town hall and the parish related to those of the servants and aristocrats who frequented the Visconti and Sforza court. In this original and stimulating interdisciplinary study, Evelyn Welch illustrates the ways in which the myths of Visconti and Sforza supremacy were created. Newly discovered material for major projects such as the cathedral, hospital and castle of Milan permits a greater understanding of the political, economic and architectural forces that shaped these extraordinary buildings. The book also explores the wider social networks of the artists themselves. Leonardo da Vinci, for example, is de-mythologised: far from being an isolated, highly prized court artist, he spent his almost eighteen years in the city working within the wider Milanese community of painters, sculptors, goldsmiths and embroiderers. The broad perspective of the book ensures that any future study of the Renaissance will have to re-evaluate the place of Milan in Italian cultural history.
Author : Denys Hay
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1977-01-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0521291046
A fresh and readable account of one of the great epochs in European history.
Author : Lauro Martines
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 611 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307830937
The great Italian city-states: Venice, Florence, Milan, and the others. The particular nature of their history and culture through the five centuries of their emergence, magnificent flowering, and twilight is brilliantly explored in terms of the internal shifts of economic, social, and political power—by violence, by manipulation, by the gradual pressures of changing circumstance. And here are the life and culture and works of imagination that were created as the merchants and guilds wrested dominion from the ancient nobility, from the first struggles against the Holy Roman Empire in the twelfth century through the rich cultural blaze and political exhaustion of the sixteenth. Lauro Martines, Professor of History at UCLA, has drawn together and chronicled in a single fluent narrative all the explosive energies, the social strife, the civil disorder, the political violence, the economic transformations, the crises of control, the religious fervor and corruption, and the spectacular achievements of art and intellect that made and defined the city-states.
Author : J.H. Plumb
Publisher : New Word City
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781640190993
Spanning an age that witnessed great achievements in the arts and sciences, this definitive overview of the Italian Renaissance will both captivate ordinary readers and challenge specialists. J. H. Plumb's impressive and provocative narrative is accompanied by contributions from leading historians, including Morris Bishop, Jacob Bronowski, Maria Bellonci, and many more, who have further illuminated the lives of some of the era's most unforgettable personalities, from Petrarch to Pope Pius II, Michelangelo to Isabella d'Este, Machiavelli to Leonardo. A highly readable and engaging volume, The Italian Renaissance is a perfect introduction to the movement that shaped the Western world.
Author : Cecilia Ady
Publisher : Ozymandias Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781531289492
A HISTORY of Milan, under the House of Sforza, can hardly incur the charge of being superfluous. While Rome, Florence and Venice have each found English historians, and while fresh books on Renaissance Italy appear every day, no English writer has told the story of the Sforza as a whole. The scant attention which has been given to the history of Milan may be compared with the brief visit which the traveller pays to the capital of Lombardy before he presses on to other Italian cities. Yet those who pause to look will find, hidden under the bustle of a modern commercial town, numerous relics of an age when the Duchy of Milan was deemed the first State in Italy. To the student of history the rule of the Sforza presents one of the most characteristic examples of an Italian tyranny at the time of the Renaissance...
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004284128
20 Chapters by qualified and distinguished scholars offer a new and original view of the State of Milan from the mid 14th to the late 17th century, with themes ranging from society to politics, music to literature, the history of art to law, the church to the economy.
Author : Peter Laven
Publisher : London, Batford
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Italy
ISBN : UCAL:B4363757
Author : John Addington Symonds,Alfred Pearson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Italy
ISBN : PSU:000020636623
Author : Matteo Di Tullio
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351880480
The early decades of the sixteenth century were a turbulent time for the Italian peninsula as competing centres of power struggled for political control. Nowhere was this more true than the area contested by Milan and Venice, that was constantly crossed and occupied by rival armies. Investigating the impact of successive crises upon the inhabitants of the Po Valley, this book challenges many fundamental assumptions about the relationship between war and economic development and draws conclusion that have implications for early modern Europe as a whole. In traditional historiography, periods of war and general crisis have often been regarded as promoting a shift in resources from the communal towards a small number of individuals. However, through a close micro-study of a single region, this book offers a different perspective. Rather than promoting an aggressive individualism, it is argued that in times of general crisis, social networks aimed to reproduce themselves and the original status quo by developing creative solutions and institutions favouring co-operation. Furthermore the elites could not always exploit ’local’ wealth because of the need to protect their position of leadership within the community, which required the preservation of that very community. This thesis not only challenges the received wisdom, but also fuels a new debate about the ways in which economic growth occurred in Early Modern Italy and Europe.
Author : Brian S. Pullan
Publisher : Lane, Allen
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015046382423
Author : Cecilia Ady
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 1545484791
A HISTORY of Milan, under the House of Sforza, can hardly incur the charge of being superfluous. While Rome, Florence and Venice have each found English historians, and while fresh books on Renaissance Italy appear every day, no English writer has told the story of the Sforza as a whole. The scant attention which has been given to the history of Milan may be compared with the brief visit which the traveller pays to the capital of Lombardy before he presses on to other Italian cities. Yet those who pause to look will find, hidden under the bustle of a modern commercial town, numerous relics of an age when the Duchy of Milan was deemed the first State in Italy. To the student of history the rule of the Sforza presents one of the most characteristic examples of an Italian tyranny at the time of the Renaissance...
Author : Richard A. Goldthwaite
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004428004
Wealth and the Demand for Art in Italy represents a departure from previous studies, both in its focus on demand and in its emphasis on the history of the material culture of the West. By demonstrating that the roots of modern consumer society can be found in Renaissance Italy, Richard Goldthwaite offers a significant contribution to the growing body of literature on the history of modern consumerism--a movement which he regards as a positive force for the formation of new attitudes about things that is a defining characteristic of modern culture.
Author : Christian Thorsten Callisen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317071280
Featuring work by researchers in the fields of early modern studies, Italian studies, ecclesiastical history and historiography, this volume of essays adds to a rich corpus of literature on Renaissance and early modern historiography, bringing a unique approach to several of the problems currently facing the field. Essays fall into three categories: the tensions and challenges of writing history in Renaissance Italy; the importance of intellectual, philosophical and political contexts for the reading and writing of history in renaissance and early modern Europe; and the implications of genre for the reading and writing of history. By collecting essays that cut across a broad cross-section of the disciplines of history and historiography, the book is able to offer solutions, encourage discussion, and engage in ongoing debates that bear direct relevance for our understanding of the origins of modern historical practices. This approach also allows the contributors to engage with critical questions concerning the continued relevance of history for political and social life in the past and in the present.
Author : Denys Hay
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX