Patronage in Renaissance Italy: From 1400 to the Early Sixteenth Century - Couverture souple

Hollingsworth, Mary

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0801852870 ISBN 13 : 9780801852879

Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996

Synopsis

This study of patrons in the Italian Renaissance argues that it was they who controlled artistic creation, rather than the artists themselves. In an ostentatious age, perceived cost became more important than artistic quality, and artists were employed as craftsmen until the late 16th century, when relations with patrons began to change into the pattern we might recognize today. The author emphasizes the extent to which Lorenzo de Medici, Ercole d'Este, and Federigo da Montefeltro, as well as several Popes, can be considered their own "architects".

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

‘A superb, information-packed book’
The Art Book

‘A vivid, lively account of a complex society in which art was made to express the wealth, status, worldly concerns and religious aspirations of its patrons.’
Art Quarterly

‘She writes authoritatively, drawing on a vast store of knowledge.’
Frances Spalding, The Sunday Times

‘A refreshing contrast to the abstraction and intellectual constipation that characterise much of the cultural history written in Italy.’
Apollo

A comprehensive study of the patrons of fifteenth-century Italian art, this book investigates the role they played in the evolution of the Renaissance and the revival of the styles and themes of the art of ancient Rome.

This process was far from uniform: the classical tradition provided flattering models not only for absolute rulers of Italy’s many principalities, but also for the republican governments of Florence and Venice, and even for the pope in Rome.

Above all, these fifteenth-century patrons were Christian, and much of the art they commissioned gave visual expression to their religious beliefs and duties.

This book examines how and why they financed their projects, what factors lay behind their choice of themes and styles, and the extent to which they themselves were involved in the final appearance of these palaces, churches, statues, altarpieces and fresco cycles which form a landmark in the history of European art.

Biographie de l'auteur

Mary Hollingsworth has a B.Sc. in business studies and a Ph.D. in art history. Her doctoral thesis dealt with the role of the architect in Italian Renaissance building projects and led to research on the role of the patron in the development of Renaissance art and architecture, a subject she taught to undergraduates and postgraduates, and published in two books (see below). Her subsequent work on the papers of Cardinal Ippolito d’Este considerably broadened her horizons, and expertise, well beyond the confines of art history into the everyday world of Renaissance Europe. She has published widely on these topics in academic journals and was one of the senior academics on the Material Renaissance Project, a collaborative project funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Board and the Getty Grant Program, which investigated costs and consumption in Italy 1300-1650.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0801852870
• ISBN 13: 9780801852879
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 384
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible