Cosimo de' Medici and the Florentine Renaissance : the patron's oeuvre
(2000)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
945.51/KENT,D
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PUBLISHED
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2000]
©2000
©2000
DESCRIPTION
xiii, 537 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 29 cm
ISBN/ISSN
0300081286 (alk. paper)
LANGUAGE
English
CONTENTS
Part I - The patron's oeuvre --
Cosimo's oeuvre --
Cosimo's letters --
Learning the lessons of Florentine culture : Who Cosimo knew --
Educating the patron : What Cosimo read --
Part II - The common culture of the Florentine audience : The Medici share in this --
Venues and performances --
Compilations and the corpus of texts --
Popular devotion and the perception of images --
Images of Florentine patronage refracted through popular culture --
Part III - Cosimo's religious commissions --
Expiation, charity, intercession --
Building "for the honor of God, and the honor of the city, and the memory of me" --
Part IV - The house of the Medici --
Palace : Measuring self on the urban map --
Accommodating the patron --
Chapel in the heart of the palace : A microcosm of Medici patronage --
Part V - The patron as "auctor" --
Patrons and their artists : "The variety of genius" --
Patron's choice : Princes, patricians, partisans --
Conclusion : An oeuvre defines its patron : Cosimo's visable image --
Appendix A : A list of what appear to be popular miscellanies compiled from the Pupilli records