Overview

To whom should we ascribe the great flowering of the arts in Renaissance Italy? Artists like Botticelli and Michelangelo? Or wealthy, discerning patrons like Cosimo de'Medici? In recent years, scholars have attributed great importance to the role played by patrons, arguing that some should even be regarded as artists in their own right. This approach receives sharp challenge in Jill Burke's Changing Patrons. Burke, drawing heavily upon her discoveries in Florentine archives, traces the many profound transformations in patrons' relations to the visual world of fifteenth-century Florence. Looking closely at two of the city's upwardly mobile families, Burke demonstrates that they approached the visual arts from within a grid of social, political, and religious concerns. Art, for them, often served as a mediator of social difference and as a potent means of signifying status and identity. Changing Patrons combines visual analysis with techniques from history and anthropology to propose new interpretations of the art created by, among others, Botticelli, Filippino Lippi, and Raphael. Genuinely interdisciplinary, the book also casts light on broad issues of identity, power relations, and

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Author:   Jill Burke (University of Edinburgh)
Publisher:   Pennsylvania State University Press
Imprint:   Pennsylvania State University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.821kg
ISBN:  

9780271023625

ISBN 10:   0271023627
Pages:   296
Publication Date:   13 May 2004
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments A Note on Transcriptions and Translations Abbreviations Introduction Part I: Families, Neighbors, and Friends 1. Family Self-Fashioning 2. Private Wealth and Public Benefit: The Nasi and Del Pugliese Palaces 3. Family, Church, Community: The Appearance of Power in Santo Spirito 4. Patronage and the Art of Friendship: Piero del Pugliese's Patronage of Filippino Lippi Part II: The Individual, the Family, and the Church 5. Patronage Rights and Wrongs: Building Identity at Santa Maria a Lecceto 6. Framing Patronage: Beauty and Order at the Church of the Innocenti 7. Differing Visions: Image and Audience in the Florentine Church Part III: Identity and Change 8. Painted Prayers: Savonarola and the Audience of Images Conclusions and Questions Appendix Nasi Family Tree Del Pugliese Family Tree Unpublished Documents Poems Written About the Portrait of Piero del Pugliese by Filippino Lippi Notes Bibliography Index

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No one writing about Florentine and Italian art history will be able to ignore this elegant and probing book. -F. W. Kent, Director, Monash University at Prato

Author Information

Jill Burke is AHRB Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Art History Department, University of Edinburgh. In 2000-2001, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies.

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