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Author | : Alison Cole |
Publisher | : Laurence King Publishing |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2016-02-02 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781780677408 |
In this fascinating study, Alison Cole explores the distinctive uses of art at the five great secular courts of Naples, Urbino, Ferrara, Mantua, and Milan. The princes who ruled these city-states, vying with each other and with the great European courts, relied on artistic patronage to promote their legitimacy and authority. Major artists and architects, from Mantegna and Pisanello to Bramante and Leonardo da Vinci, were commissioned to design, paint, and sculpt, but also to oversee the court's building projects and entertainments. The courtly styles that emerged from this intricate landscape are examined in detail, as are the complex motivations of ruling lords, consorts, nobles, and their artists. Drawing on the most recent scholarship, Cole presents a vivid picture of the art of this extraordinary period.
Author | : Leah R. Clark |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 2018-06-28 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 1108427723 |
This book presents a new perspective on the Italian Renaissance court by examining the circulation, collection and exchange of art objects.
Author | : Alison Cole |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : ART |
ISBN | : 9781780679853 |
This fascinating study of Renaissance courtly art and culture in fifteenth and early sixteenth-century Italy encompasses the most recent scholarship on the courts, court art and noble values. Alison Cole not only considers the role of artists, but explores the distinctive uses to which art was put at the courts, from the smaller duchies and princely courts of Ferrara, Mantua and Urbino to the larger courts of Naples and Milan. The social, intellectual and artistic milieu of each court is brought vividly to life, along with the complex personalities of the rulers, their relationships with the civic and ecclesiastical authorities, and the role of court women as patrons of the arts. Drawing on a wide range of contemporary texts and visual material, Cole paints a rich picture of the these extraordinary courts in the moment of their greatest brilliance.
Author | : Marco Folin |
Publisher | : Antique Collectors Club Dist |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781851496433 |
A complete overview of the Italian Renaissance courts covering all areas influenced by them: art, music, literature etc.
Author | : Alison Cole |
Publisher | : Prentice Hall Art History |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2005-03-17 |
Genre | : Art and state |
ISBN | : 9780131938311 |
"Alison Cole reveals to us another side of the Renaissance, that of the individual patrons and their world. This unique book is both a scholarly discussion in the tradition of Jakob Burckhardt and a tour through Renaissance Italy, described with charm and filled with detail."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Alison Cole |
Publisher | : Laurence King Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016-01-15 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1780679866 |
In this authoritative study, Alison Cole explores the distinctive uses of art at the five great secular courts of Naples, Urbino, Ferrara, Mantua and Milan. The princes who ruled these city-states, vying with each other and with the great European courts, relied on artistic patronage to promote their legitimacy and authority. Major artists and architects, from Mantegna and Pisanello to Bramante and Leonardo da Vinci, were commissioned to design, paint and sculpt, but also to oversee the court’s building projects and entertainments. Bronze medallions, illuminated manuscripts and rich tapestries, inspired by sources as varied as Roman coins, Byzantine ivories and French chivalric romances, were treasured and traded. Palaces were decorated, extravagant public spectacles were staged and whole cities were redesigned, to bring honour, but also solace and pleasure. The ‘courtly’ styles that emerged from this intricate landscape are examined in detail, as are the complex motivations of ruling lords, consorts, nobles and their artists. Drawing on the most recent scholarship, Cole presents a vivid picture of the art of this extraordinary period.
Author | : Aldo Scaglione |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 518 |
Release | : 2023-11-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0520333616 |
Knights at Court is a grand tour and survey of manners, manhood, and court life in the Middle Ages, like no other in print. Composed on an epic canvas, this authoritative work traces the development of court culture and its various manifestations from the latter years of the Holy Roman Empire (ca. A.D. 1000) to the Italian Renaissance of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Leading medievalist and Renaissance scholar Aldo Scaglione offers a sweeping sociological view of three geographic areas that reveals a surprising continuity of courtly forms and motifs: German romances; the lyrical and narrative literature of northern and southern France; Italy's chivalric poetry. Scaglione discusses a broad number of texts, from early Norman and Flemish baronial chronicles to the romances of Chrétien de Troyes, the troubadours and Minnesingers. He delves into the Niebelungenlied, Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, and an array of treatises on conduct down to Castiglione and his successors. All these works and Scaglione's superior scholarship attest to the enduring power over minds and hearts of a mentality that issued from a small minority of people—the courtiers and knights—in central positions of leadership and power. Knights at Court is for all scholars and students interested in "the civilizing process." This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1991.
Author | : Stephen Kolsky |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023 |
Genre | : HISTORY |
ISBN | : 9781003418511 |
The extraordinary cultural Renaissance in the northern Italian courts of the late 15th and early 16th centuries is the subject of this volume. It starts with Baldessar Castiglione's Book of the Courtier (1528) which encapsulates this sense of renewal: his experiences at court and their subsequent rewriting form the backbone of the work. The author then addresses questions of biography, gender, genre, and the varied roles of the courtier, expanding the perspective of Castiglione's text to include the lives and writings of other courtiers and patrons. What was it like to be a courtier? What were the problems associated with such a lifestyle? The importance of women in court circles is also highlighted in studies of one of the most notable of female patrons Isabella d'Este (1474-1539) and of the theoretical developments in writing about gender, stimulated by such women. Stephen Kolsky's analysis of both well-known and comparatively obscure texts brings out the diversity of practices that constituted court society and their centrality to our understanding of the Renaissance.
Author | : Sergio Bertelli |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
This comprehensive study of the courts of Renaissance Italy explores every aspect of their diversity and magnificence, from Naples in the south to Monferrato in the north, from the oriental-like splendors presided over by the Swabian emperor Frederick II to the Baroque glories of the Counter-Reformation in Florence. . .Scholarly and well documented, The Courts of the Italian Renaissance vividly evokes the past and is an essential guide for the reader wishing to learn more about one of the most fascinating periods of Italian history. /
Author | : Charles M. Rosenberg |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 477 |
Release | : 2010-06-21 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0521792487 |
The Court Cities of Northern Italy examines painting, sculpture, decorative arts, and architecture produced within the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries.