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The Medici : portraits and politics, 1512-1570 / edited by Keith Christiansen and Carlo Falciani ; with contributions by Andrea Bayer, Elizabeth Cropper, Davide Gasparotto, Sefy Hendler, Antonella Fenech Kroke, Tommaso Mozzati, Elizabeth Pilliod, Julia Siemon, Linda Wolk-Simon.
Fine Arts Library N5273.2.M43 C47 2021
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LIBRA N5273.2.M43 C47 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Christiansen, Keith, curator, editor, author.
- Bayer, Andrea, author.
- Cropper, Elizabeth, 1944- author.
- Gasparotto, Davide, author.
- Hendler, Sefy, 1972- author.
- Fenech Kroke, Antonella, author.
- Mozzati, Tommaso, author.
- Pilliod, Elizabeth, author.
- Siemon, Julia, author.
- Wolk-Simon, Linda, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medici, House of--Art patronage--Exhibitions.
- Medici, House of.
- Medici, House of--Portraits--Exhibitions.
- Portrait painting, Italian--16th century--Exhibitions.
- Portrait painting, Italian.
- Portraits, Italian--16th century--Exhibitions.
- Portraits, Italian.
- Nobility--Italy--Florence--Portraits--Exhibitions.
- Nobility.
- Art patronage.
- Italy--Florence.
- Genre:
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Portraits.
- Physical Description:
- 327 pages : color illustrations, portraits ; 29 x 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2021.
- Summary:
- Between 1512 and 1570, Florence underwent dramatic political transformations. As citizens jockeyed for prominence, portraits became an essential means not only of recording likeness but also of conveying a sitter's character, social position, and cultural ambitions. This fascinating book explores the ways that painters, including Jacopo Pontormo, Agnolo Bronzino, and Francesco Salviati, sculptors such as Benvenuto Cellini, and others endowed Florentine portraiture with the erudite and self-consciously stylish character that made it so distinctive. Although the Medici family had ruled Florence since 1434, Cosimo I de Medici, who became the second Duke of Florence in 1537, demonstrated a particularly shrewd use of culture as a political tool to transform Florence into a dynastic duchy and give Florentine art the central position it has held ever since. Featuring 100 remarkable paintings, sculptures, works on paper, and medals, this volume presents a sweeping, penetrating exploration of a crucial and vibrant period in Italian art. Exhibition: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA (26.06.-11.10.2021)
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Power and Identity in Sixteenth-Century Florentine Portraiture / Carlo Falciani
- Vernacular Identities: The Accademia Fiorentina and the Poetics of Portraiture / Elizabeth Cropper
- CATALOGUE
- From Republic to Duchy, 1512-32 / Carlo Falciani
- Entries 1-10
- Politics, Portraiture, and the Medici Popes, 1513-34 / Linda Wolk-Simon
- Entries 11-15
- Cosimo I de' Medici: Lineage, Family, and Dynastic Ambitions / Elizabeth Pilliod
- Entries 16-33
- A Poetics of Portraiture and the Legacy of Dante and Petrarch / Julia Siemon
- Entries 34-54
- Cosimo and the Politics of Culture: Reinventing Florence as a Cultural Capital / Sefy Hendler
- Redecorating the Palazzo Vecchio / Antonella Fenech Kroke
- Entries 55-73
- Florence and Rome: Bronzino and Salviati / Carlo Falciani
- Entries 74-92.
- Notes:
- Catalog of an exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from June 26-October 11, 2021
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-318) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1588397300
- 9781588397300
- OCLC:
- 1198557799
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