Patronage in Renaissance Italy: From 1400 to the Early Sixteenth Century - Brossura

Hollingsworth, Mary

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ISBN 10: 0801852870 ISBN 13: 9780801852879

Casa editrice: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, 1996

Riassunto

This study of patrons in the Italian Renaissance argues that it was they who controlled artistic creation, rather than the artists themselves. In an ostentatious age, perceived cost became more important than artistic quality, and artists were employed as craftsmen until the late 16th century, when relations with patrons began to change into the pattern we might recognize today. The author emphasizes the extent to which Lorenzo de Medici, Ercole d'Este, and Federigo da Montefeltro, as well as several Popes, can be considered their own "architects".

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Recensione:

"Hollingsworth pursues her subject from Florence to Venice, into five of Italy's independent princely states (Milan, Ferrara, Mantua, Urbino, and Naples) before ending with the papal court at Rome. She writes authoritatively, drawing on a vast store of knowledge." -- Sunday Times

"An absorbing study of fifteenth-century patrons and artists... A vivid, lively account of a complex society in which art was made to express the wealth, status, worldly concerns, and religious aspirations of its patrons." -- Art Quarterly

L'autore:

Mary Hollingsworth is the author of A History of World Art and Architecture of the Twentieth Century. Currently living in Florence, she has taught Renaissance patronage and design on both the undergraduate and graduate levels.

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• Editore: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0801852870
• ISBN 13: 9780801852879
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 384