| Description |
xii,187 pages : illustrations, plans,portraits ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
1. Introduction: The patron in the picture / Alison Wright and Eckart Marchand -- 2. The patronage of villa chapels and oratories near Florence: a typology of private religion / Amanda Lillie -- 3. Dancing nudes in the Lanfredini villa at Arcetri / Alison Wright -- 4. Lorenzo de' Medici's sculpture of Apollo and Marsyas, Bacchic imagery and the triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne / Ruth Rubinstein -- 5. The representation of citizens in religious fresco cycles in Tuscany / Eckart Marchand -- 6. Nuns and choice: artistic decision-making in Medicean Florence / Kate Lowe -- 7. Late fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century painting contracts and the stipulated use of the painter's hand / Michelle O'Malley |
| Summary |
Medici dominance in the political and cultural life of Italy, and of Florence in particular, has been well explored. Previous patronage studies have shown how the Medici invested great wealth in both private and public art and how the skills of Florentine artists and their products were an important part of the self-representation of Florence and the Medici in Italy and abroad. The six studies in this volume investigate the evidence for patronal interests expressed in a variety of commissions by different social groups and consider how far Medici activity as patrons can be considered paradigmatic |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Art patronage -- Italy -- Tuscany -- History.
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Art, Italian -- Italy -- Tuscany -- 15th century.
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Art, Italian -- Italy -- Tuscany -- 16th century.
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Art, Italian -- Italy -- Tuscany.
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Art, Medieval -- Italy -- Tuscany.
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Art, Renaissance -- Italy -- Tuscany.
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| Author |
Marchand, Eckart.
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Wright, Alison, 1965-
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| LC no. |
98029315 |
| ISBN |
185928423X |
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