Painting, Power and Patronage: The Rise of the Professional Artist in Renaissance Italy

Kempers, Bram

ISBN 10: 0713990201 / ISBN 13: 9780713990201

Editore: Allen Lane/The Penguin Press, London, UK / New York, 1992

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First English language edition 1992, translated from Dutch, first printing, number line starts with 1. Published by Allen Lane/The Penguin Press. Hardcover in full black cloth with DJ. Condition new, square, tight and crisp book, no edgewear, corners not bumped, no markings of any kind, no names, no underlinings, no highlights, no bent pages, looks unread. Not a reminder. DJ fine, bright and shiny, no tears, no chips, very very slight wear at corners, price not clipped. 8vo, XIV + 402 pages, illustrated. Heavy book will require additional postage for international orders.

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• Titolo: Painting, Power and Patronage: The Rise of the Professional Artist in Renaissance Italy
• Editore: Allen Lane/The Penguin Press, London, UK / New York
• Data di pubblicazione: 1992
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0713990201
• ISBN 13: 9780713990201
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Edizione: First English language edition
• Condizione: New
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: Fine

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Riassunto

The art of Renaissance Italy remains arguably the touchstone of Western art. It has produced many of the icons by which we define European culture, and our subsequent view of the role of art and of the artist in society has been profoundly influenced and shaped by the ideas of the period. In this stimulating and controversial book, a bestseller in the author's native Holland, Bram Kempers shows the period as a process of the developing 'professionalization' of the artist.
Tracing the history of patronage - successively of the mendicant orders and city-states, the merchant families, the princely and ducal rulers and, finally, the great papal patrons, Julius II, Pius II and Sixtus IV - Kempers follows the story from Sienna to Florence, then to the court of Federico da Montefeltro in Urbino and, ultimately, to the heyday of the papal courts in Rome and the ducal court of Cosimo de Medici in Florence, which witnessed the supremacy of Michelangelo and the birth of the great Florentine Academy.
A painter and sociologist at the University of Amsterdam, Dr Kempers shows how the unprecedented - and perhaps unsurpassed - creativity of Renaissance art was born of the dynamics of patronage and professional competition. This bred a fruitful balance between individual originality and social control, and out of a creative alliance of art and power a crowning period in the history of art flourished.
With over seventy illustrations, including works from Duccio, Lorenzetti and Simone Martini through to Fra Angelico and Masaccio, Piero della Francesca and Raphael, the book is a major contribution to our understanding of the relationship between art and society. It demonstrates, to scholars and laymen alike, the profound influence of the Renaissance on Western ideas of art over five hundred years.

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Book by Kempers Bram