The Art, History and Architecture of Florentine Churches
The Art, History and Architecture of Florentine Churches

Author: Susan Bracken

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2016-12-14

Total Pages: 490

ISBN-13: 1443857637

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Churches and palaces in Florence have been the subject matter of book-length, often multi-volume studies over the centuries. This book is a compendium of the main churches in Florence and has been written with two distinct audiences in mind: English-speaking students of Renaissance art, architecture, literature and history and the well-read traveller to Florence who wishes to place the works of art and architecture into the wider context of Italian culture. The choice of churches discussed here was influenced by the author’s experience as teacher for several university programmes on site in Florence. The buildings described and analysed are those which students will most likely encounter in the course of their study-abroad stay in Florence, whether they wish to specialise in art, architecture or the history of the Florentine Renaissance. This book represents a textbook that offers concise information on the history, art, and architecture of 25 of the main Florentine churches, provides plans and photos of the façades, and introduces the student to some of the most important vocabulary and the main textual sources of the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries.

Changing Patrons: Social Identity and the Visual Arts in Renaissance Florence
Changing Patrons: Social Identity and the Visual Arts in Renaissance Florence

Author:

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published:

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9780271048147

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To whom should we ascribe the great flowering of the arts in Renaissance Italy? Artists like Botticelli and Michelangelo? Or wealthy, discerning patrons like Cosimo de' Medici? In recent years, scholars have attributed great importance to the role played by patrons, arguing that some should even be regarded as artists in their own right. This approach receives sharp challenge in Jill Burke's Changing Patrons, a book that draws heavily upon the author's discoveries in Florentine archives, tracing the many profound transformations in patrons' relations to the visual world of fifteenth-century Florence. Looking closely at two of the city's upwardly mobile families, Burke demonstrates that they approached the visual arts from within a grid of social, political, and religious concerns. Art for them often served as a mediator of social difference and a potent means of signifying status and identity. Changing Patrons combines visual analysis with history and anthropology to propose new interpretations of the art created by, among others, Botticelli, Filippino Lippi, and Raphael. Genuinely interdisciplinary, the book also casts light on broad issues of identity, power relations, and the visual arts in Florence, the cradle of the Renaissance.

Art and History of Florence
Art and History of Florence

Author: Bonechi (Firm)

Publisher: Casa Editrice Bonechi

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9788847609662

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Discover the rich history and culture of some of the world¿s most influential historical places with these highly illustrated books, packed with informative and enlightening descriptions and information

The Cambridge History of Fifteenth-Century Music
The Cambridge History of Fifteenth-Century Music

Author: Anna Maria Busse Berger

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-07-16

Total Pages: 1058

ISBN-13: 1316298299

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Through forty-five creative and concise essays by an international team of authors, this Cambridge History brings the fifteenth century to life for both specialists and general readers. Combining the best qualities of survey texts and scholarly literature, the book offers authoritative overviews of central composers, genres, and musical institutions as well as new and provocative reassessments of the work concept, the boundaries between improvisation and composition, the practice of listening, humanism, musical borrowing, and other topics. Multidisciplinary studies of music and architecture, feasting, poetry, politics, liturgy, and religious devotion rub shoulders with studies of compositional techniques, musical notation, music manuscripts, and reception history. Generously illustrated with figures and examples, this volume paints a vibrant picture of musical life in a period characterized by extraordinary innovation and artistic achievement.

A Guide to the Paintings in the Churches and Minor Museums of Florence
A Guide to the Paintings in the Churches and Minor Museums of Florence

Author: Maud Cruttwell

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-09-17

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 9781528273688

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Excerpt from A Guide to the Paintings in the Churches and Minor Museums of Florence: A Critical Catalogue, With Quotations From Vasari Still existed in the middle of the XVI century when Vasari published his Lives of the Painters. He describes some of the frescoes destroyed by his own hand with a minuteness of detail which proves them to have been well preserved. The whole sale destruction, not only of the paintings but of the architectural features of the ancient buildings (such as the tramezzi, which separated the monks from the lay worshippers), is due to Cosimo I., who seems to have had little sympathy with the Giottesque painters. The Lord Date as Catholic prince, writes Vasari, in mutation of the great King Solomon, was pleased to rebuild and to restore to better form and greater beauty the temples and Holy Churches of God. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

A Guide to the Paintings in the Churches and Minor Museums of Florence
A Guide to the Paintings in the Churches and Minor Museums of Florence

Author: Maud Cruttwell

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2022-10-27

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781016054997

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Florence (Lct)
Florence (Lct)

Author: Prof. Antonio Paolucci

Publisher: H F Ullmann

Published: 2007-05-29

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783833145858

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There can be no doubt about it: this is a magnificent achievement. The illustrated volume Florence: Art and Architecture combines interesting and easily understood texts with an abundance of opulent colour illustrations into a first class cultural experience. Prominent Florentine scholars and museum directors accompany the reader on a journey to the unique artistic treasures of this city on the Arno. The experts introduce superb historical buildings and sculptures in their historical contexts, and as 'insiders' lead you through world famous painting galleries such as the Accademia and the Palazzo Pitti. Over 500 high quality illustrations, often over more than one page, as well as thematic essays on book illumination, the art of the goldsmith and the treasures of the Medicis. Whether as an especially beautiful gift or to grace your own bookshelves, this exceptional book is a bibliophile's jewel, and at the same time an enthralling art guide through one of the most gorgeous cities in the world.