The Medici Portraits And Politics 1512 1570
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Author |
: Keith Christiansen |
Publisher |
: Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Total Pages |
: 332 |
Release |
: 2021-04-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781588397300 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1588397300 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Medici: Portraits and Politics 1512–1570 by : Keith Christiansen
Between 1512 and 1570, Florence underwent dramatic political transformations. As citizens jockeyed for prominence, portraits became an essential means not only of recording a 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 artists in other media endowed their works with an erudite and self-consciously stylish character that made Florentine portraiture distinctive. The Medici family had ruled Florence without interruption between 1434 and 1494. Following their return to power in 1512, Cosimo I de’ Medici, who became the second Duke of Florence in 1537, demonstrated a particularly shrewd ability to wield culture as a political tool in order to transform Florence into a dynastic duchy and give Florentine art the central position it has held ever since. Featuring more than ninety remarkable paintings, sculptures, works on paper, and medals, this volume is written by a team of leading international authors and presents a sweeping, penetrating exploration of a crucial and vibrant period in Italian art.
Author |
: Gabrielle Langdon |
Publisher |
: University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages |
: 457 |
Release |
: 2006-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780802038258 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0802038255 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Synopsis Medici Women by : Gabrielle Langdon
The ducal court of Cosimo I de' Medici in sixteenth-century Florence was one of absolutist, rule-bound order. Portraiture especially served the dynastic pretensions of the absolutist ruler, Duke Cosimo and his consort, Eleonora di Toledo, and was part of a Herculean programme of propaganda to establish legitimacy and prestige for the new sixteenth-century Florentine court. In this engaging and original study, Gabrielle Langdon analyses selected portraits of women by Jacopo Pontormo, Agnolo Bronzino, Alessandro Allori, and other masters. She defines their function as works of art, as dynastic declarations, and as encoded documents of court culture and propaganda, illuminating Cosimo's conscious fashioning of his court portraiture in imitation of the great courts of Europe. Langdon explores the use of portraiture as a vehicle to express Medici political policy, such as with Cosimo's Hapsburg and Papal alliances in his bid to be made Grand Duke with hegemony over rival Italian princes. Stories from archives, letters, diaries, chronicles, and secret ambassadorial briefs, open up a world of fascinating, personalities, personal triumphs, human frailty, rumour, intrigue, and appalling tragedies. Lavishly illustrated, Medici Women: Portraits of Power, Love and Betrayal in the Court of Duke Cosimo I is an indispensable work for anyone with a passion for Italian renaissance history, art, and court culture.
Author |
: Carmen Bambach |
Publisher |
: Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Total Pages |
: 337 |
Release |
: 2010 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781588393548 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1588393542 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Drawings of Bronzino by : Carmen Bambach
Drawings by the great Italian Mannerist painter and poet Agnolo Bronzino (1503-1572) are extremely rare. This important and beautiful publication brings together for the first time nearly all of the sixty drawings attributed to this leading draftsman of the 16th century. Each drawing is illustrated in color, discussed in detail, and shown with many comparative photographs. Bronzino's technical virtuosity as a draftsman and his mastery of anatomy and perspective are vividly apparent in each stroke of the chalk, pen, or brush. The younger generations of Florentine artists particularly admired Bronzino for his technical virtuosity as a painter, and Giorgio Vasari praised him for his powers as a disegnatore (designer and draftsman).
Author |
: Lorne Campbell |
Publisher |
: National Gallery London |
Total Pages |
: 312 |
Release |
: 2008 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015082670186 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis Renaissance Faces by : Lorne Campbell
"This survey traces the development of portrait painting in Northern and Southern Europe during the Renaissance, when the genre first flourished. Both regions developed their own distinct styles and techniques, but each was influenced by the other. Focusing on the relationship between artists of the north and south, renowned specialists analyse the notion of likeness - at that time based not only on accurate reference to posterity, but incorporating all aspects of human life, including propaganda, power, courtship, love, family, ambition and hierarchy. Essays and individual catalogue entries present new research on works by some of the greatest portraitists of the period, including Giovanni Bellini, Sandro Botticelli, Lucas Cranach, Albrecht Durer, Jan van Eyck, Hans Holbein and Titan, all magnificently illustrated."--Jacket.
Author |
: Kelly Baum |
Publisher |
: Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Total Pages |
: 259 |
Release |
: 2021-03-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781588397256 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1588397254 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis Alice Neel: People Come First by : Kelly Baum
"For me, people come first," Alice Neel (1900–1984) declared in 1950. "I have tried to assert the dignity and eternal importance of the human being." This ambitious publication surveys Neel's nearly 70-year career through the lens of her radical humanism. Remarkable portraits of victims of the Great Depression, fellow residents of Spanish Harlem, leaders of political organizations, queer artists, visibly pregnant women, and members of New York's global diaspora reveal that Neel viewed humanism as both a political and philosophical ideal. In addition to these paintings of famous and unknown sitters, the more than 100 works highlighted include Neel's emotionally charged cityscapes and still lifes as well as the artist’s erotic pastels and watercolors. Essays tackle Neel's portrayal of LGBTQ subjects; her unique aesthetic language, which merged abstraction and figuration; and her commitment to progressive politics, civil rights, feminism, and racial diversity. The authors also explore Neel's highly personal preoccupations with death, illness, and motherhood while reasserting her place in the broader cultural history of the 20th century.
Author |
: Patricia Lee Rubin |
Publisher |
: Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Total Pages |
: 434 |
Release |
: 2011 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781588394255 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1588394255 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Renaissance Portrait by : Patricia Lee Rubin
Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Bode-Museum, Berlin, Aug. 25-Nov. 20, 2011, and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Dec. 21, 2011-Mar. 18, 2012.
Author |
: Isabella Lapi Ballerini |
Publisher |
: Giunti Editore |
Total Pages |
: 132 |
Release |
: 2003 |
ISBN-10 |
: 880902995X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9788809029958 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (5X Downloads) |
Synopsis The Medici Villas by : Isabella Lapi Ballerini
Author |
: Jeff L. Rosenheim |
Publisher |
: Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Total Pages |
: 183 |
Release |
: 2020-03-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781588397089 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1588397084 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis Photography’s Last Century by : Jeff L. Rosenheim
Beginning with Paul Strand’s landmark From the Viaduct in 1916 and continuing through the present day, Photography’s Last Century examines defining moments in the history of the medium. Featuring nearly 100 masterworks from one of the most important private holdings of photography, the book includes works by Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Walker Evans, László Moholy-Nagy, Man Ray, and Cindy Sherman, as well as a diverse group of important lesser-known practitioners. A fascinating interview with Ann Tenenbaum provides a personal account of the works, while the main text offers an essential history of photography that addresses the implications of calling this period the medium’s “last” century.
Author |
: Bruce Redford |
Publisher |
: Getty Publications |
Total Pages |
: 240 |
Release |
: 2008-08-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780892369249 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0892369248 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis Dilettanti by : Bruce Redford
Bruce Redford re-creates the vibrant culture of connoisseurship in Enlightenment England by investigating the multifaceted activities and achievements of the Society of Dilettani. Elegantly and wittily he dissects the British connoisseurs whose expeditions, collections, and publications laid the groundwork for the Neoclassical revival and for the scholarly study of Graeco-Roman antiquity. After the foundation of the society in 1732, the Dilettani commissioned portraits of the members. Including a striking group of mock-classical and mock-religious representations, these portraits were painted by George Knapton, Sir Joshua Reynolds, and Sir Thomas Lawrence. During the second half of the century, the society’s expeditions to the Levant yielded a series of pioneering architectural folios, beginning with the first volume The Antiquities of Athens in 1762. These monumental volumes aspired to empirical exactitude in text and image alike. They prepared the way for Specimens of Antient Sculpture (1809), which combines the didactic (detailed investigations into technique, condition, restoration, and provenance) with the connoisseurial (plates that bring the illustration of ancient sculpture to new artistic heights). The Society of Dilettanti’s projects and publications exemplify the Enlightenment ideal of the gentleman amateur, which is linked in turn to a culture of wide-ranging curiosity.
Author |
: Ilona Katzew |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 262 |
Release |
: 2005-06-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0300109717 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780300109719 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Synopsis Casta Painting by : Ilona Katzew
Casta painting is a distinctive Mexican genre that portrays racial mixing among the Indians, Spaniards & Africans who inhabited the colony, depicted in sets of consecutive images. Ilona Katzew places this art form in its social & historical context.