Art, Power, and Patronage in Renaissance Italy

by Paoletti, John (Author); Radke, Gary (Author)

• ISBN13: 9780131938267
• ISBN10: 0131938266
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-01-01
• Publisher: PENGUIN

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.

Author Biography

Gary M. Radke is a Renaissance specialist at Syracuse University and a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome.

Table of Contents

Introduction : art in context	p. 12
The late thirteenth and the fourteenth century	p. 47
The origins of the renaissance	p. 48
Rome : artists, popes, and cardinals	p. 56
Assisi and Padua : narrative realism	p. 67
Florence : traditions and innovations	p. 77
Siena : city of the Virgin	p. 99
Naples : art for a royal kingdom	p. 124
Venice : the most serene republic	p. 135
Pisa and Florence : morality and judgment	p. 152
Visconti Milan and Carrara Padua	p. 174
The fifteenth century	p. 203
Florence : commune and guild	p. 204
Florence : the Medici and political propaganda	p. 251
Rome : re-establishing papal power	p. 289
Venice : affirming the past and present	p. 313
Courtly art : the gothic and classic	p. 336
Sforza Milan	p. 362
The first half of the sixteenth century	p. 377
Lombardy : instability and religious fervor	p. 378
Florence : the renewed republic	p. 387
Rome : Julius II, Leo X, and Clement VII	p. 397
Mantua, Parma, and Genoa : the arts at court	p. 425
Florence : mannerism and the Medici	p. 437
Venice : vision and monumentality	p. 464
The later sixteenth century	p. 499
The Rome of Paul III	p. 500
The demands of the Council of Trent	p. 513
Northern Italy : reform and innovation	p. 527
Rome : a European capital city	p. 538
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