| Description |
576 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm |
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large print |
| Contents |
Introduction : art in context -- I. The late thirteenth and the fourteenth century -- 1. The origins of the renaissance -- 2. Rome : artists, popes, and cardinals -- 3. Assisi and Padua : narrative realism -- 4. Florence : traditions and innovations -- 5. Siena : city of the Virgin -- 6. Naples : art for a royal kingdom -- 7. Venice : the most serene republic -- 8. Pisa and Florence : morality and judgment -- 9. Visconti Milan and Carrara Padua -- II. The fifteenth century -- 10. Florence : commune and guild -- 11. Florence : the Medici and political propaganda -- 12. Rome : re-establishing papal power -- 13. Venice : affirming the past and present -- 14. Courtly art : the gothic and classic -- 15. Sforza Milan -- III. The first half of the sixteenth century -- 16. Lombardy : instability and religious fervor -- 17. Florence : the renewed republic -- 18. Rome : Julius II, Leo X, and Clement VII -- 19. Mantua, Parma, and Genoa : the arts at court -- 20. Florence : mannerism and the Medici -- 21. Venice : vision and monumentality -- IV. The later sixteenth century -- 22. The Rome of Paul III -- 23. The demands of the Council of Trent -- 24. Northern Italy : reform and innovation -- 25. Rome : a European capital city |
| Summary |
"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 |
| Notes |
Earlier eds. published under title: Art in renaissance Italy |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Art, Italian.
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Art, Renaissance -- Italy.
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| SUBJECT |
Italy -- Civilization -- 1268-1559.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068888
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| Author |
Radke, Gary M.
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| LC no. |
2005043146 |
| ISBN |
0131935100 (paperback) |
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0131938266 (trade case) |
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