Renaissance Florence : The Art of the 1470s

by Patricia Lee Rubin and Alison Wright; With contributions by Nicholas Penny

ISBN13:
9780300081718
ISBN10:
0300081715
Format: Trade Book
Copyright: 1999-12-11
Publisher: National Gallery London
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Summary

This lovely book provides an introduction to the activities of the leading artists active in Florence during one decade of the quattrocento. It illustrates their special contributions and highlights their differences, common sources and ambitions, and responses to each other. It also explain how their art was made within the framework established by the religious, political, and social needs of powerful Florentine families. This was an era when Lorenzo de'Medici and his allies were working to consolidate their dominance in Florence, and cultivation of the visual arts were an essential part of the way in which they asserted their influence. Competition and collaboration was encouraged between artists, as was innovation in subject and technique.

The book concentrates on the art of Andrea Verrocchio, Antonio and Piero Pollaiuolo, Sandro Botticelli and Filippino Lippi. Their paintings are presented within the context of the other arts practiced in the same or in neighboring workshops, and a number of works in other media are included: sculpture and objects in mar

Sponsor's Preface

(1)

Director's Foreword

(1)

Introduction

(2)

Florence in the 1470s

(22)

Patrons and Projects

(44)

Artists and Workshops

(45)

Catalogue

121

(225)

I The Art of the 1470s

122

(26)

II Verrocchio's Workshop and its Projects

148

(42)

III Verrocchio and his Workshop: Teaching and Transmission

190

(32)

IV The Pollaiuolo Brothers

222

(30)

V The Heroic and the Antique

252

(34)

VI Sacred Beauty

286

(26)

VII `The Beautiful Chamber'

312

(34)

Bibliography

346

(6)

Acknowledgements

352

(1)

List of Lenders

353

(1)

Photographic Credits

354

(1)

Index

355

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