| Description |
xiv, 401 pages : illustrations, 1 map, 1 plan, portraits ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
The Renaissance according to Vasari -- Patronage and cultural history -- A sociological approach to art history -- Blanks in history -- A historical survey -- Pt. I. Mendicant Orders -- 1. Popes, cardinals and friars -- The function of images in churches -- The patronage of the papal court -- Curia and Franciscans in Assisi -- Upper Church: the history of the order -- Lower Church: patrons and saints -- Mendicant churches and the dissemination of images -- 2. A new system of panel paintings -- From sacred to profane: a spatial hierarchy -- The people's saints -- Monumental panel paintings for the laymen's choir -- Altarpieces for the monks' choir -- A new saint in the canon's choir of St Peter's -- 3. A far-flung and diversified network of patrons -- Courts -- City communes -- Merchant families -- Mendicant orders -- Pt. II. The Republic of Sienna -- 1. The formation and structure of a city-state -- Legislation -- A virtuous state and its culture -- Civic patronage -- Sienna within Europe -- 2. The Cathedral -- Bishop and canons: power and liturgy -- Alterations to the Cathedral (1250-1350) -- Civic processions and the Battle of Montaperti -- Works of art in the Cathedral -- Duccio's Maesta: Sienna's sacred emblem -- Side altars and city saints -- Images sacred and secular -- The city and the friars -- Church and state: a wider view -- 3. The Town Hall: seat of power, seat of patronage -- The first commissions -- The territory: the Globe Room |
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Courtly patronage -- Professionalization and court painters -- 2. The pope as statesman and patron -- The Papal State in Europe -- The new St Peter's and the Julius Monument -- Christian imagery and the School of Athens (1509) -- Political propaganda, 1511-12 -- Laws, powers and ideals: Disputa and Justice frescoes -- Monopolies of force and taxation in the Stanza d'Eliodoro -- Triumphal processions -- State symbolism under Leo X -- Painters and Curia patronage -- 3. Cosimo I and Vasari: excellence in government and in art -- The duke of the Republic -- Demolition and renovation in mendicant churches -- The founding of the Accademia del Disengno -- History and theory of art -- Pt. V. Social Contexts to the Present Day -- 1. Italy, 1200-1600: a first Renaissance -- Professionalization -- Patronage -- State formation and civilization -- 2. Looking forward: 1600-1900 -- 3. The twentieth century: art in flux -- New powers and the decline of patronage -- The rise of the collector -- Modern art: a second Renaissance |
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Good and Bad Government: the Peace Room -- 4. The profession of painting -- Patronage and professionalization -- Duccio: master of an age -- Duccio's successors: art as a profession -- Simone Martini, court painter of Avignon -- Of painters by writers -- Working as a painter: conditions of employment -- Continuity and stagnation -- Sienna in relation to Florence and Rome -- Innovation in Sienna: incidental developments -- A new era: courtly patrons and painters from Rome -- PartIII. Florentine Families -- 1. The professionalization of painters in Florence -- Organizations and status -- New skills and techniques -- Historiography and theory -- 2. Patronage: commissions and negotiations -- The social background of Florentine painting -- The foundation of chapels: gifts and obligations -- Commissions: money, religion and art -- 3. Sacred images and social history -- Friars versus families -- The Medici commissions -- Family saints -- Portraits of honour and shame -- The Sassetti chapel: influence in images -- The Tornabuoni chapel: family monument in a mendicant church -- 4. Civilization and state formation -- Families and the ideals of civilization -- Republican Florence and courtly states -- Pt. IV. The Courts of Urbino, Rome and Florence -- 1. Federico da Montefeltro: knight, scholar and patron of art -- Aristocratic culture -- The state expands -- Palace, court and scholars -- Altarpieces and courtly authority -- Magnificent manuscripts -- Portraits of princes and scholars |
| Summary |
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 |
| Analysis |
Italy |
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Visual arts |
| Notes |
Translation of: Kunst, macht et mecenaat |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-389) and index |
| Notes |
Translation of: Kunst, macht en mecenaat, 1987 |
| Subject |
Lermontov, Mikhail I͡Urʹevich, 1814-1841. Geroĭ nashego vremeni.
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Art and state -- Italy.
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Art patronage -- Italy -- History.
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Art patronage -- Italy.
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Art -- Collectors and collecting -- Italy -- History.
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Art, Italian.
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Art, Renaissance -- Italy.
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Artists and patrons -- Italy -- History.
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Artists and patrons -- Italy.
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Christianity and art -- Catholic Church.
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Irony in literature.
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| Author |
Briggs, A. D. P. (Tony. D. P.)
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| LC no. |
39009020 |
| ISBN |
0713990201 |
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9780713990201 |
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