Art in Renaissance Italy, Perspectives Series

by Paoletti, John T.; Radke, Gary M.

• ISBN13: 9780131935105
• ISBN10: 0131935100
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-01-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

Summary

KEY BENEFIT: A glance at the pages ofArt in Renaissance Italyshows at once its freshness and breadth of approach, which includes thorough explanation into how and why works of art, buildings, prints, and other forms of visual production came to be. The authors also discuss how men and women of the Renaissance regarded art and artists, why works of Renaissance art look the way they do, and what this means to us. Unlike other books on the subject, this one covers not only Florence and Rome, but also Venice and the Veneto, Assisi, Siena, Milan, Pavia, Padua, Mantua, Verona, Ferrara, Urbino, and Napleseach governed in a distinctly different manner, every one with individual, political, and social structures that inevitably affected artistic styles. Spanning more than three centuries, the narrative brings to life the rich tapestry of Italian Renaissance society and the art that is its enduring legacy. Throughout, special features, including textual sources from the period and descriptions of social rituals, evoke and document the people and places of this dynamic age.The book covers the art and artists of Italy during the RenaissanceFlorence, Rome, Milan, Venice, Naples and other regions, from the 13 th through the 15 th centuries.For Renaissance art enthusiasts and others interested in the art of Italyrs"s Renaissance.

Table of Contents

Preface	10	(2)
Introduction: Art in Context	12	(3)
Contemporary Scene: Art and Offerings	15	(1)
Patronage	16	(1)
Artists' Workshops	17	(4)
The Image of the Artist	17	(1)
Workshop Training	18	(3)
Contracts	21	(1)
Contemporary Voice: An Artist's Life	21	(1)
Materials and Methods	22	(2)
The Painting Studio	23	(1)
Wall Painting	23	(1)
Contemporary Voice: Terms of Employment	24	(13)
Tempera and Oil Painting	26	(1)
Mosaic and Stained Glass	27	(1)
The Sculpture Workshop	28	(3)
Bronze Sculpture	31	(1)
Drawings	32	(1)
Architecture	33	(3)
Other Workshops	36	(1)
Print Media	36	(1)
Renovations and Restorations	37	(5)
Historiography and Methodology	42	(1)
Vasari's Three Ages	42	(1)
Contemporary Voice: Fashioning the Female Artist	43	(4)
Naming the Renaissance	44	(3)
I. The Late Thirteenth and the Fourteenth Century	47	(156)
The Origins of the Renaissance	48	(8)
St. Francis and the Beginnings of Renaissance Art	48	(2)
Francis of Assisi	49	(1)
Contemporary Voice: Francis as Another Christ	50	(5)
The San Damiano Crucifix: Christus triumphans	50	(1)
Christus patiens	50	(2)
Defining St. Francis	52	(1)
St. Clare	53	(1)
Style and Meaning	53	(2)
Urban Contexts	55	(1)
Types of Cities	55	(1)
Rome: Artists, Popes, and Cardinals	56	(11)
Rome's Revival under Nicholas III	57	(3)
The Sancta Sanctorum	59	(1)
Contemporary Scene: Art and Miracles	60	(1)
Nicholas IV at Santa Maria Maggiore	61	(1)
Patrons from the Papal Curia	62	(2)
Pope Boniface VIII and an Imperial Language of Power	64	(1)
Creating Images for an Absent Papacy	65	(2)
Assisi and Padua: Narrative Realism	67	(10)
Frescoes in San Francesco	69	(1)
Nave Frescoes	69	(1)
Contemporary Voice: St. Francis and the Christ Child	70	(1)
Padua: The Scrovegni Chapel	71	(6)
Florence: Traditions and Innovations	77	(22)
St. John the Baptist and the Baptistry	79	(1)
The Palazzo della Signoria and Urban Planning	80	(2)
Contemporary Scene: Art and Violence	82	(1)
Mendicant Churches	82	(12)
Santa Croce and Santa Maria Novella	82	(2)
Altarpieces Dedicated to the Virgin	84	(1)
Cimabue's Altarpiece for Santa Trinita	84	(1)
Duccio's Altarpiece for the Confraternity of the Laudesi	85	(1)
Giotto's Ognissanti Madonna	86	(1)
Santa Croce Frescoes	86	(1)
The Bardi Chapel	87	(1)
The Peruzzi Chapel	88	(2)
The Baroncelli Chapel	90	(2)
Altarpieces for Santa Croce	92	(1)
The Santa Croce Refectory Frescoes	93	(1)
The Cathedral Complex	94	(5)
Andrea Pisano's Baptistry Doors	96	(3)
Siena: City of the Virgin	99	(25)
The Cathedral	100	(4)
The Pulpit	101	(2)
The Facade	103	(1)
Duccio's Maesta	104	(1)
Contemporary Voice: The Procession of the Maesta	104	(8)
Altarpieces in the Transept Chapels	107	(3)
Later Sienese Altar Painting	110	(1)
Tomb Sculpture	110	(2)
Arezzo: The Tarlati Tomb	112	(1)
The Palazzo Pubblico	112	(2)
Simone Martini's Maesta for the Palazzo Pubblico	113	(1)
Lippo Memmi's Maesta for San Gimignano	113	(1)
Contemporary Scene: Art and Popular Piety	114	(6)
Secular Imagery in the Scala del Consiglio	116	(1)
The Sala della Pace: ``Good Government''	116	(4)
Siena's Political System and Civic Art	120	(4)
Painting in the Palazzo Pubblico	120	(2)
Enhancements to the Campo	122	(2)
Naples: Art for a Royal Kingdom	124	(11)
The Court and the Importation of Artists	124	(4)
Architectural Commissions	127	(1)
Consolidating Angevin Rule: A Queen's Commissions	128	(3)
Cavallini and Giotto in Naples	129	(2)
Robert of Anjou	131	(1)
The Altarpiece of St. Louis	131	(1)
Sancia of Majorca and the Church of Santa Chiara	132	(1)
Tomb Monuments and Robert the Wise	132	(3)
The Tomb of Mary of Hungary	132	(1)
The Tomb of Robert of Anjou	133	(2)
Venice: The Most Serene Republic	135	(17)
St. Mark's Basilica	138	(2)
Piazza San Marco	140	(1)
Images of the State and the Individual	140	(1)
Doge Andrea Dandolo	140	(1)
Contemporary Voice: The Image as Document	141	(1)
Enhancements to St. Mark's	141	(4)
The Pala d'Oro	141	(1)
St. Mark's Baptistry	141	(2)
The Choir Screen	143	(1)
The Facade	144	(1)
The Church of Santi Giovanni e Paolo	145	(1)
The Tomb of Doge Michele Morosini	145	(1)
The Doge's Palace	146	(6)
Santo Stefano	147	(1)
Sculpture on the Doge's Palace	147	(1)
Painting in the Doge's Palace	148	(4)
Pisa and Florence: Morality and Judgment	152	(22)
The Camposanto Frescoes in Pisa	152	(3)
Santa Maria Novella in Florence	155	(8)
The Strozzi Chapel	155	(1)
The Strozzi Altarpiece	156	(1)
The Black Death	156	(2)
The Guidalotti Chapel	158	(1)
The Apotheosis of St. Thomas Aquinas	159	(2)
The Way of Salvation	161	(2)
Contemporary Voice: The Bridge of Salvation	163	(1)
Social Upheaval and Civic Works in Florence	163	(4)
Or San Michele	167	(1)
Family Commissions	168	(3)
The Castellani Chapel	168	(1)
The Legend of the True Cross	169	(1)
Frescoes at San Miniato	170	(1)
Other Civic Imagery	171	(2)
Domestic Painting	173	(1)
Visconti Milan and Carrara Padua	174	(29)
Milan: The Visconti Court	174	(2)
Azzone Visconti and the Idea of Magnificence	176	(1)
Contemporary Voice: In Praise of Magnificence	177	(4)
Azzone Visconti's Tomb	178	(1)
Embellishments of the City	178	(3)
The Altarpiece of the Magi	181	(1)
The Equestrian Monument of Bernabo Visconti	181	(1)
The Cansignorio della Scala Monument in Verona	182	(1)
The Castello Visconteo	182	(2)
Manuscript Illumination	184	(1)
Contemporary Scene: Art and Gastronomy	185	(1)
Padua: The Carrara Court	185	(1)
The Padua Baptistry	186	(1)
Contemporary Voice: Illustrious Men	187	(1)
Patronage at the Santo	187	(2)
The St. James (San Felice) Chapel	187	(1)
St. Anthony of Padua	188	(1)
The Oratory of St. George	188	(1)
Milan: Giangaleazzo Visconti	189	(5)
The Certosa of Pavia	190	(1)
Cathedral Architecture	191	(2)
Cathedral Sculpture	193	(1)
The International Gothic Style	194	(5)
Manuscript Illumination	194	(1)
Michelino da Besozzo	195	(1)
Secular Frescoes	196	(1)
The Last Visconti and the Durability of the International Style	197	(2)
North Italian Influences in Naples	199	(4)
Aristocratic Parronage	199	(2)
Queen Giovanna II and the Monument to King Ladislas	201	(1)
The Caracciolo Chapel	201	(2)
II. The Fifteenth Century	203	(174)
Florence: Commune and Guild	204	(47)
Sculpture for the Cathedral Complex	204	(3)
The Competition for the Second Baptistry Doors	205	(2)
Contemporary Voice: Ghiberti versus Brunelleschi	207	(5)
Buttress Sculpture	209	(2)
Facade Sculpture	211	(1)
Or San Michele	212	(5)
The Foundling Hospital	217	(1)
Brunelleschi's Dome	218	(1)
Contemporary Scene: Art and Childbirth	219	(1)
Contemporary Voice: In Praise of Artists	220	(1)
Family Commissions	221	(10)
The Bartolini-Salimbeni Chapel	221	(3)
The Strozzi Chapel at Santa Trinita	224	(1)
The Quaratesi Altarpiece	225	(1)
Masaccio and the Brancacci Chapel	226	(5)
The Trinity and Single-Point Perspective	231	(2)
Altarpieces at Mid-Century	233	(2)
Civic Imagery	235	(1)
Narrative Frescoes	236	(3)
Castagno at Sant' Apollonia	236	(1)
Piero della Francesca in Arezzo	237	(2)
Sculptural Commissions Outside Florence	239	(4)
Siena: The Baptismal Font	239	(2)
Quercia in Bologna	241	(1)
Donatello and Michelozzo in Naples	242	(1)
The Brancacci Tomb	242	(1)
The Florence Cathedral Interior	243	(3)
The Gates of Paradise	246	(4)
The Tomb of Leonardo Bruni	250	(1)
Florence: The Medici and Political Propaganda	251	(38)
The Medici's Civic and Domestic Commissions	252	(5)
San Lorenzo	252	(1)
The Old Sacristy	253	(3)
San Marco	256	(1)
Contemporary Voice: A Job Application	257	(7)
The Medici Palace	259	(1)
Portrait Busts	260	(1)
The Medici Chapel	261	(1)
Other Decorations	262	(2)
Donatello in Padua	264	(3)
The Santo Altarpiece	264	(1)
The Gattamelata Monument	265	(2)
The Medici and Donatello's Late Work	267	(4)
Donatello's Bronze David and Judith and Holofernes	267	(2)
The San Lorenzo Pulpits	269	(2)
The Golden Age and Lorenzo the Magnificent	271	(7)
The Tomb of Piero and Giovanni de' Medici	271	(1)
The Mercanzia Niche at Or San Michele	272	(1)
The Devotional Image	272	(3)
Family Chapels	275	(1)
The Sassetti Chapel	275	(2)
The Strozzi Chapel	277	(1)
Portraiture	278	(1)
The Architecture of Magnificence	279	(2)
The Facade of Santa Maria Novella	279	(2)
The Strozzi Palace	281	(1)
Classical Antiquity and the Golden Age	281	(4)
Contemporary Scene: Art and the Collector	285	(2)
Antiquarianism	286	(1)
Savonarola and Reform	287	(2)
Rome: Re-establishing Papal Power	289	(24)
Martin V, Eugenius IV, and Nicholas V	289	(4)
A Cautionary Fresco	290	(1)
The Papal Basilicas	290	(1)
Santa Maria Maggiore	290	(1)
St. Peter's	291	(1)
The Vatican Palace	292	(1)
Contemporary Voice: Ruins and Dreams	293	(1)
Pius II	294	(5)
Cardinals' Commissions	297	(1)
Pienza	298	(1)
Paul II	299	(3)
Palazzo Venezia	300	(1)
A Roman School of Painting	300	(2)
Sixtus IV: Roma Caput Mundi	302	(7)
The Papal Family	302	(1)
The Hospital of Santo Spirito	303	(1)
Roman Churches	303	(1)
Santa Maria del Popolo	303	(1)
Sant' Agostino	304	(1)
Commemorative Monuments	305	(1)
The Cancelleria	305	(1)
The Sistine Chapel	306	(3)
Innocent VIII and Alexander VI: Power and Pleasure	309	(4)
Cardinals' Commissions	310	(1)
The Carafa Chapel	310	(1)
Michelangelo's Pieta	311	(2)
Venice: Affirming the Past and Present	313	(23)
Sculpture on the Doge's Palace	313	(2)
The Palazzo Foscari	315	(1)
The Ca' d'Oro	315	(1)
Contemporary Voice: Finishing Touches	316	(1)
The Cappella Nova	316	(2)
The Scuola della Carita	318	(1)
Jacopo Bellini	319	(2)
The Cappella Nova in the late 1440s	321	(1)
Andrea Mantegna	322	(2)
The San Zeno Altarpiece	323	(1)
Venice: Heir of East and West	324	(1)
The Arsenal	324	(1)
Religious Architecture	325	(2)
Painting	327	(3)
The Scuole and Lay Commissions	330	(3)
Commemorative State Commissions	333	(3)
Courtly Art: The Gothic and Classic	336	(26)
Ferrara: The Este Family	336	(2)
Medals for Leonello d'Este	336	(1)
Pisanello in Verona	337	(1)
Contemporary Voice: Praise for Pisanello	338	(1)
Contemporary Scene: Art and Punishment	339	(4)
Borso d'Este	340	(1)
Borso's Bible	340	(1)
The Palazzo Schifanoia	341	(2)
The Palazzo dei Diamanti	343	(1)
Naples: Alfonso the Magnanimous	343	(4)
The Castello Aragonese	343	(1)
An Arch for a Humanist Ruler	344	(3)
Rimini: Sigismondo Malatesta	347	(2)
Urbino	349	(4)
Portraits	350	(1)
Altarpieces	350	(1)
The Palazzo Ducale	351	(2)
Mantua: The Gonzaga Family	353	(8)
Sant' Andrea	353	(2)
The Palazzo Ducale	355	(1)
The Sala Pisanello	355	(1)
The Camera Picta	356	(3)
Male and Female Decorum	359	(2)
Contemporary Voice: Fighting for Chastity	361	(1)
Sforza Milan	362	(15)
The Sforzas	362	(5)
Completing Visconti Ecclesiastical Foundations	363	(1)
The Certosa	363	(1)
The Cathedral	364	(1)
Private Commissions	364	(3)
Ludovico il Moro and a Grand Classical Style	367	(4)
Santa Maria presso San Satiro	367	(1)
Santa Maria delle Grazie	367	(4)
Leonardo da Vinci	371	(1)
The Last Supper	371	(1)
Contemporary Voice: A Man of Many Talents	371	(6)
Madonna of the Rocks	373	(1)
Leonardo at Ludovico's Court	374	(3)
III. The First Half of the Sixteenth Century	377	(122)
Lombardy: Instability and Religious Fervor	378	(9)
Leonardo at Court	379	(1)
Commemorative Commissions	380	(2)
Alternatives to Leonardo	382	(5)
Florence: The Renewed Republic	387	(10)
The Republic as Patron	387	(6)
A New Civic Hero: Michelangelo's David	388	(1)
Sculpture at the Cathedral	389	(1)
The Imagery of State	390	(1)
The St. Anne Altarpiece	390	(2)
The Battle Paintings	392	(1)
Private Patrons	393	(4)
Portraits	393	(2)
Religious Painting	395	(2)
Rome: Julius II, Leo X, and Clement VII	397	(28)
The Imperial Style under Julius II	397	(6)
A New St. Peter's	398	(1)
The Tomb of Julius II	399	(3)
The Sistine Ceiling	402	(1)
Contemporary Voice: Michelangelo the Poet	403	(5)
Contemporary Scene: Art and Dissent	408	(2)
The Stanza della Segnatura	409	(1)
Roman Civic Imagery	410	(2)
The Stanza d'Eliodoro	412	(2)
Portraits	414	(1)
Contemporary Voice: The Courtier as Artist	415	(1)
Leo X: Papal Luxury	416	(2)
The Stanza dell'Incendio	416	(1)
The Sistine Tapestries	416	(2)
The Suburban Villa and Sybaritic Pleasure	418	(4)
Raphael and Michelangelo	422	(1)
Clement VII: The Dissolution of Papal Power	423	(2)
Mantua, Parma, and Genoa: The Arts at Court	425	(12)
Mantua: The Pleasure Palace	425	(4)
The Loves of Jupiter	428	(1)
Parma: Elegance and Illusionism	429	(4)
Correggio at San Paolo and the Cathedral	429	(1)
Parmigianino and Self-Conscious Artifice	429	(4)
Genoa: A Princely Republic	433	(4)
Doria Portraits	433	(1)
Villa Doria	434	(1)
Genoa in the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century	435	(2)
Florence: Mannerism and the Medici	437	(27)
Emerging Transformations of the Classical Style	438	(1)
A New Social Order	439	(2)
Domestic and Villa Decoration	441	(3)
Altarpieces	444	(3)
Michelangelo and the Medici	447	(5)
The Medici Chapel	447	(3)
The Laurentian Library	450	(2)
Florence under Cosimo I	452	(7)
Portraits	452	(2)
The Chapel of Eleonora of Toledo	454	(3)
Art as a Symbol of the Advanced State	457	(1)
A Dynasty Supported by History and Myth	457	(2)
Contemporary Voice: Casting the Perseus	459	(5)
Restructuring Civic Space: The Uffizi	460	(1)
The Sala del Gran Consiglio	461	(1)
The Florentine Academy	462	(2)
Venice: Vision and Monumentality	464	(35)
Visual Poetry	465	(1)
Eroticism and Antiquity	466	(3)
Poetic Altarpieces	469	(1)
Energized Altarpieces	470	(3)
Tullio Lombardo: Classicism for Ecclesiastical Patrons	473	(1)
Venetian Artists Working for Alfonso d'Este	474	(3)
The Studio di Marmi	474	(1)
The Camerino d'Alabastro	475	(2)
Titian in Urbino	477	(2)
Refashioning the City Triumphant	479	(2)
The Zecca	479	(1)
The Library	479	(1)
The Loggetta	480	(1)
The Palazzo Corner	480	(1)
Titian: Images for the International Elite	481	(1)
The Vendramin Family	481	(1)
Charles V	482	(1)
Mythology and Sensuality	482	(2)
Colorito versus Disegno	484	(1)
Titian: The Artist as his Own Patron	484	(2)
Narrative Imagery in the Scuole	486	(2)
Celebrating the City in the Doge's Palace	488	(2)
Patronage of Commercial and Ecclesiastical Projects	490	(2)
The Fabbriche Nuove	490	(1)
The Rialto Bridge	491	(1)
Palladio	492	(1)
San Giorgio Maggiore	492	(1)
Contemporary Voice: Plague in Venice	493	(6)
The Redentore	493	(1)
Villa Barbaro	494	(2)
The Villa La Rotonda	496	(1)
The Teatro Olimpico	496	(3)
IV. The Later Sixteenth Century	499	(49)
The Rome of Paul III	500	(13)
Michelangelo's Last Judgment	501	(3)
The Deposition	504	(1)
Contemporary Voice: A Word of Advice	505	(1)
Triumphalist History	505	(2)
Urbi et Orbi: The City	507	(4)
The Capitoline Hill	508	(2)
St. Peter's	510	(1)
Private Commissions	511	(2)
The Villa Giulia	511	(1)
The Farnese Hours	512	(1)
The Demands of the Council of Trent	513	(14)
Decrees on the Arts	514	(1)
Reform and Censorship	515	(1)
Contemporary Voice: Veronese Before the Inquisition	516	(1)
Reform and New Religious Orders	517	(6)
The Gesu	517	(3)
Painting for the Gesu	520	(1)
San Stefano Rotondo	521	(2)
Women as Patrons	523	(1)
Church Reform and Local Politics	524	(3)
Northern Italy: Reform and Innovation	527	(11)
Devotional Painting	527	(2)
Milanese Architecture	529	(2)
Portraits	531	(4)
Still-Life Painting	535	(3)
Rome: A European Capital City	538	(10)
Sixtus V and the Replanning of Rome	538	(5)
Urban Monuments	539	(1)
The Obelisks	539	(2)
The Roman Columns	541	(1)
The Acqua Felice	541	(1)
Papal Basilicas	542	(1)
Santa Maria Maggiore	542	(1)
Contemporary Scene: Art, Pilgrimage, and Processions	543	(3)
The Dome of St. Peter's	546	(1)
Continuity and Change	546	(2)
Genealogies	548	(5)
List of Popes	553	(1)
List of Venetian Doges	553	(1)
Time Chart	554	(2)
Glossary	556	(2)
Bibliography	558	(8)
Literary Credits, Picture Credits	566	(1)
Index	567