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Florentine Patricians and Their Networks

Author : Elisa Goudriaan

Publisher : BRILL

Page : 499 pages

File Size : 35,47 MB

Release : 2017-10-02

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 9004353585

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In Florentine Patricians and Their Networks, Elisa Goudriaan presents the first comprehensive overview of the cultural world and diplomatic strategies of Florentine patricians in the seventeenth century and the ways in which they contributed as a group to the court culture of the Medici. The author focuses on the patricians’ musical, theatrical, literary, and artistic pursuits, and uses these to show how politics, social life, and cultural activities tended to merge in early modern society. Quotations from many archival sources, mainly correspondence, make this book a lively reading experience and offer a new perspective on seventeenth-century Florentine society by revealing the mechanisms behind elite patronage networks, cultural input, recruiting processes, and brokerage activities.



The Palazzo Vecchio, 1298-1532

Author : Nicolai Rubinstein

Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA

Page : 222 pages

File Size : 19,99 MB

Release : 1995

Category : Art

ISBN :

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* The author is the world's leading expert on Florentine politics in the Renaissance period Nicolai Rubinstein's unique command of the complexities of Florentine political history has resulted in this extremely impressive study of the Palazzo Vecchio and the way in which it functioned as a seat of the Florentine republican government from the late thirteenth century to 1530. He traces thehistory of the construction and successive changes to the building in the republican period, documents where the various committees and officers of the government were housed, and relates the consecutive campaigns of decoration of the interior very closely and subtly to changes in the politicaltemperature of the city. Rubinstein's extraordinarily scrupulous approach to the evidence, together with the exhaustive archival research he has carried out, have produced an important study, which arrives at a number of new and important conclusions to particular problems of concern to art historians as well as politicalhistorians.



House of Secrets

Author : Allison Levy

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing

Page : 455 pages

File Size : 41,56 MB

Release : 2019-01-24

Category : History

ISBN : 1786725711

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A look into the tantalising secrets of Florence's Palazzo Rucellai. When Italian Renaissance professor Allison Levy takes up residency in the palazzo of her dreams – the Palazzo Rucellai in Florence – she finds herself consumed by the space and swept into the vortex of its history. She spends every waking moment in dusty Florentine libraries, exploring the palazzo's myriad rooms seeking to uncover its secrets. As she unearths the stories of those who have lived behind its celebrated façade, she discovers that it has been witness to weddings, suicides, orgies, the dissection of a 'monster', and even a murder. Entwining Levy's own experiences with the ghosts of the Palazzo Rucellai's past, House of Secrets paints a scintillating portrait of a family, a palace and one of the most iconic cities in the world.



A Cultural Symbiosis

Author : Klazina D. Botke

Publisher : Leuven University Press

Page : 320 pages

File Size : 35,97 MB

Release : 2021-12-15

Category : Art

ISBN : 9462702969

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The history of the Florentine patriciate did not end with the establishment of the Medici Duchy and Grand Duchy of Tuscany. Proud and self-confident, these patricians were not subservient courtiers; on the contrary, they continued to exert a considerable influence on Florentine culture and politics for centuries. The patrician class in sixteenth-century Florence were the descendants of wealthy, sophisticated and politically savvy families who, while acquiring noble titles, estates, and villas, retained their long-standing urban identity. The mark they left on the city’s cultural and artistic life was embraced by the Medici, who used their political and diplomatic knowhow, eleborate artistic commissions, and European networks to enhance their power and prestige. A Cultural Symbiosis highlights the contributions to Florentine art and culture of eight patricians, focusing on the Valori, Pucci, Ridolfi, Vecchietti, del Nero, Salviati, Guicciardini, and Niccolini families.



Florentine Villas in the Fifteenth Century

Author : Amanda Lillie

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 734 pages

File Size : 28,52 MB

Release : 2005-04-18

Category : Architecture

ISBN : 9780521770477

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In this book, which was originally published in 2005, Amanda Lillie challenges the urban bias in Renaissance art and architectural history by investigating the architecture and patronage strategies, particularly those of the Strozzi and the Sassetti clans, in the Florentine countryside during the fifteenth century. Based entirely on archival material that remained unpublished at the time of publication, her book examines a number of villas from this period and reconstructs the value systems that emerge from these sources, which defy the traditional, idealized interpretation of the 'renaissance villa'. Here, the house is studied in relation to the families who lived in them and to the land that surrounded them. The villa emerges as a functional, utilitarian farming unit upon whose success families depended, and where dynastic and patrimonial values could be nurtured.