Title Somaesthetic experience and the viewer in Medicean Florence : Renaissance art and political persuasion, 1459-1580 / Allie Terry-Fritsch

Published Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2020] ©2020

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Description 1 online resource (296 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color) Series Visual and material culture, 1300-1700 ; 22 Visual and material culture, 1300-1700 ; 22. Contents 1. Activating the Renaissance viewer: art and Somaesthetic experience -- 2. Mobilizing visitors: political persuasion and the Somaesthetics of belonging in the Chapel of the Magi -- 3. Staging gendered authority: Donatello's Judith, Lucrezia Tornabuoni de'Medici's sacra storia, and the Somaesthetics of Justice -- 4. Performing virtual pilgrimage: Somaesthetics and Holy Land Devotion at San Vivaldo -- 5. Playing the printed piazza: Giovanni de'Bardi's Discorso sopra il giouco del calcio fiorentino and Somaesthetic Discipline in Grand-Ducal Florence -- 6. Epilogue: Renaissance Somaesthetics and the digital age Summary Viewers in the Middle Ages and Renaissance were encouraged to forge connections between their physical and affective states when they experienced works of art. They believed that their bodies served a critical function in coming to know and make sense of the world around them, and intimately engaged themselves with works of art and architecture on a daily basis. This book examines how viewers in Medicean Florence were self-consciously cultivated to enhance their sensory appreciation of works of art and creatively self-fashion through somaesthetics. Mobilized as a technology for the production of knowledge with and through their bodies, viewers contributed to the essential meaning of Renaissance art and, in the process, bound themselves to others. By investigating the framework and practice of somaesthetic experience of works by Benozzo Gozzoli, Donatello, Benedetto Buglioni, Giorgio Vasari, and others in fifteenth- and sixteenth century Florence, the book approaches the viewer as a powerful tool that was used by patrons to shape identity and power in the Renaissance Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 01, 2020) Subject Art -- Italy -- Florence -- History -- 15th century Art -- Italy -- Florence -- History -- 16th century Renaissance -- Italy -- Florence ART -- History -- Renaissance. Art Politics and government Renaissance SUBJECT Florence (Italy) -- Politics and government -- 15th century Florence (Italy) -- Politics and government -- 16th century Subject Italy -- Florence Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9789048544240 9048544246

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