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

Book 1 of 2: Italian Art History

Hollingsworth

 
9780801852879: Patronage in Renaissance Italy: From 1400 to the Early Sixteenth Century
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0801852870 ISBN 13: 9780801852879
Publisher: John 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".

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Review

"Hollingsworth pursues her subject from Florence to Venice, into five of Italy's independent princely states (Milan, Ferrara, Mantua, Urbino, and Naples) before ending with the papal court at Rome. She writes authoritatively, drawing on a vast store of knowledge." -- Sunday Times



"An absorbing study of fifteenth-century patrons and artists... 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

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".

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Publisher
John Hopkins University Press
Publication date
1996
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0801852870
ISBN 13 
9780801852879
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
384