Kategoria BISAC: Art >> History - Renaissance

Am Beispiel der Sammlungsinteressen und Protektionspraktiken Cosimo III. de' Medicis zeichnet die Studie die engen Verbindungen zwischen Kunsten und Naturwissenschaften in der Fruhen Neuzeit nach. Zahlreiche oft noch unveroffentlichte Bild- und Textquellen vermitteln ein differenziertes Panorama botanischer Pracht und Gelehrsamkeit zur Zeit der ultimi Medici, wobei die Moglichkeiten und Grenzen grossherzoglicher Patronage hinterfragt werden.

In The Patron's Payoff, Jonathan Nelson and Richard Zeckhauser apply the innovative methods of information economics to the study of art. Their findings, written in highly accessible prose, are surprising and important. Building on three economic concepts--signaling, signposting, and stretching--the book develops the first systematic methodology for assessing the meaning of art patronage and provides a broad and useful framework for understanding how works of art functioned in Renaissance Italy.

The authors discuss how patrons used conspicuous commissions to establish and...

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During Pope Sixtus V's reign at the end of the Roman Cinquecento (1585-1590), counter-reformed Rome underwent a significant transformation of its liturgy and of the way in which its religious monuments were approached by the faithful. The changes implemented by the pope affected the decoration of monuments on the various estates over which the Vatican has historically held dominion.

"Renovatio Christiana" is a scholarly study detailing the many building projects Pope Sixtus V carried out in order to provide clergy, residents, and pilgrims better access to Rome's main basilicas and...

Lorenzo il Magnifico de' Medici was the head of the ruling political party at the apogee of the golden age of Quattrocento Florence. Born in 1449, his life was shaped by privilege and responsibility, and his deeds as a statesman were legendary even while he lived. At his death he was master of the largest and most famous private palace in Florence, a building crammed full of the household goods of four generations of Medici as well as the most extraordinary collections of art, antiquities, books, jewelry, coins, cameos, and rare vases in private hands. His heirs undertook an inventory of...