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Images and identity in fifteenth-century Florence / Patricia Lee Rubin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rubin, Patricia Lee, 1951- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art and society--Italy--Florence--History--15th century.
- Art and society.
- Art patronage--Italy--Florence--History--15th century.
- Art patronage.
- Art, Italian--Italy--Florence--15th century.
- Art, Italian.
- Art, Renaissance--Italy--Florence.
- Art, Renaissance.
- Visual perception--History--15th century.
- Visual perception.
- Italy--Florence.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxiii, 418 pages) : 256 illustrations (chiefly color)
- Other Title:
- Images and identity in 15th-century Florence
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2007]
- Summary:
- "Renaissance Florence, of endless fascination for the beauty of its art and architecture, is no less intriguing for its dynamic political, economic, and social life. In this book Patricia Lee Rubin crosses the boundaries of all these areas to arrive at an original and comprehensive view of the place of images in Florentine society. The author asks an array of questions: Why were works of art made? Who were the artists who made them, and who commissioned them? How did they look, and how were they looked at? She demonstrates that the answers to such questions illuminate the contexts in which works of art were created, and how they were valued and viewed. Rubin seeks out the meeting places of meaning in churches, in palaces, in piazzas, places of exchange where identities were taken on and transformed, often with the mediation of images. She concentrates on questions of vision and visuality, on 'seeing and being seen.' With a blend of exceptional illustrations; close analyses of sacred and secular paintings by artists including Fra Angelico, Fra Filippo Lippi, Filippino Lippi, and Botticelli; and wide-ranging bibliographic essays, the book shines new light on fifteenth-century Florence, a special place that made beauty one of its defining features"--Publisher's description.
- Contents:
- The imagery of identity
- Dello splendido vivere : on necessary and honorable expenditure
- The economy of honor : Donatello and artistic practice
- Seeing and being seen
- The eye of the beholder
- Vision and belief
- Happy endings.
- Notes:
- Description based on print record and online resource (A&AePortal, viewed on May 15, 2018).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780300226959
- 0300226950
- OCLC:
- 1042078030
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