Leone Leoni and the status of the artist at the end of the Renaissance / Kelley Helmstutler Di Dio.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Di Dio, Kelley Helmstutler.

Series:

Visual culture in early modernity

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Leoni, Leone, 1509-1590.

Leoni, Leone.

Sculptors--Italy--Biography.

Sculptors.

Artists.

Social conditions.

Italy.

Artists--Italy--Social conditions--16th century.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xvi, 250 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2011]

Summary:

The late Renaissance sculptor Leone Leoni (1509-1590) came from modest beginnings, but died as a nobleman and knight with a house and art collection envied by the nobility. Leoni's success as an artist and his social and intellectual achievements outdid those of any of his predecessors. Through extensive archival research, Kelley Helmstutler Di Dio sheds new light on Leoni's background and character, as well as on unknown aspects of his career, his social position in Milan, and the contents of his impressive art collection. Di Dio has collected and analyzed a sizeable body of unpublished material that, along with contemporary accounts, fleshes out Leoni's multiple roles as imperial sculptor, aristocrat, scholar, and criminal. She further examines the visual manifestations of these roles in his house, collection, and tomb, as well as Leoni's influence on artists in Italy, Spain and the Netherlands.

Contents:

From medallist to sculptor

Sir Leone

Rivals in art and crime

The Casa degli Omenoni and the construction of identity

Leoni's collection

Leoni's legacy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780754662341

0754662349

OCLC:

613564230