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Money and Beauty : Bankers, Botticelli and the Bonfire of the Vanities (exhibition Florence, Palazzo Strozzi, 17.09.2011 - 22.01.2012)
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ISBN: 9788809767645 Year: 2011 Publisher: Firenze Giunti Editore


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Vermeer et les maîtres de la peinture de genre
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ISBN: 9782350315706 2350315703 9782757211960 275721196X Year: 2017 Publisher: Paris : ©2012 Somogy éditions d'art : Louvre éditions,

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Résumé en 4ème de couverture: "Vermeer, ou "le sphinx de Delft". Cette exposition, forgée au XIXe siècle, a figé la personnalité de Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) dans une pose énigmatique et solitaire. Cet ouvrage original permet au contraire de découvrir que ce génie universel s'inscrivait dans un riche réseau d'influences, très loin du splendide isolement avec lequel il fut longtemps associé. La scène de genre élégante hollandaise connaît son âge d'or vers 1650-1680. Cette peinture, mise en scène luxueuse d'activité qui n'ont de quotidiennes que le nom, permet à la République des Provinces-Unies de s'affirmer face aux monarchies. Vermeer en est l'un des maîtres, aux côtés de Gerard Dou, Gerard ter Borch, Frans von Mieris, Gabriel Metsu, Pieter de Hooch... Ces peintres, actifs à Leyde, Deventer, Amsterdam ou Delft, ont eu connaissance du travail des uns et des autres. Leurs rapports alternent hommages, citation détournées, métamorphoses. Vues de la sorte, les sublimations de Vermeer prennent un sens nouveau: celui de ses rejets et des admirations."

Medici Women
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ISBN: 1442684569 9781442684560 9780802038258 0802038255 0802095267 9780802095268 Year: 2006 Publisher: Toronto

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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.


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Women artists in early modern italy : carreers, fame, and collectors
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ISBN: 9781909400351 1909400351 Year: 2016 Volume: *2 Publisher: Turnhout Oostkamp Harvey Miller Publishers Grafikon

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In ten chapters spanning two centuries, this collection of essays examines the relationships between women artists and their publics, both in early modern Italy as well as across Europe. Drawing upon archival evidence, these essays afford abundant documentary information about the diverse strategies that women found for carrying out their artistic careers, from Sofonisba Anguissola's role as a lady-in-waiting at the court of Felipe II of Spain, to Lucrezia Quistelli's avoidance of the Florentine market in favor of upholding the prestige of her family, to Costanza Francini's preference for the steady but humble work of candle painting for a Florentine confraternity. Their unusual life stories along with their outstanding talents brought fame to a number of women artists even in their own lifetimes--so much fame, in fact, that Giorgio Vasari included several women artists in his 1568 edition of artists' biographies. Notably, this visibility also subjected women artists to public scrutiny, to a much greater extent than what their male counterparts experienced. Because of their fame and their extraordinary (and often exemplary) lives, works made by women artists held a special allure for early generations of Italian collectors, including Grand Duke Cosimo III de' Medici, who made a point of collecting their self-portraits. In the eighteenth century, British collectors wishing to model themselves after the Italian virtuosi exhibited an undeniable penchant for the Italian women artists of a bygone era, but turned their backs to the contemporary women artists their midst.


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Cosimo I de' Medici, vorst en republikein : een studie naar het heersersimago van de eerste groothertog van Toscane (1537-1574)
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ISBN: 9029055316 Year: 1997 Publisher: Amsterdam Meulenhoff


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The Medicean Succession
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ISBN: 0674416201 0674416198 9780674416192 9780674725478 0674725476 Year: 2014 Publisher: Cambridge, MA

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In 1537, Florentine Duke Alessandro dei Medici was murdered by his cousin and would-be successor, Lorenzino dei Medici. Lorenzino's treachery forced him into exile, however, and the Florentine senate accepted a compromise candidate, seventeen-year-old Cosimo dei Medici. The senate hoped Cosimo would act as figurehead, leaving the senate to manage political affairs. But Cosimo never acted as a puppet. Instead, by the time of his death in 1574, he had stabilized ducal finances, secured his borders while doubling his territory, attracted an array of scholars and artists to his court, academy, and universities, and, most importantly, dissipated the perennially fractious politics of Florentine life. Gregory Murry argues that these triumphs were far from a foregone conclusion. Drawing on a wide variety of archival and published sources, he examines how Cosimo and his propagandists successfully crafted an image of Cosimo as a legitimate sacral monarch. Murry posits that both the propaganda and practice of sacral monarchy in Cosimo's Florence channeled preexisting local religious assumptions as a way to establish continuities with the city's republican and renaissance past. In The Medicean Succession, Murry elucidates the models of sacral monarchy that Cosimo chose to utilize as he deftly balanced his ambition with the political sensitivities arising from existing religious and secular traditions.

The marvel of maps : art, cartography and politics in Renaissance Italy
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ISBN: 0300107277 Year: 2005 Publisher: New Haven ; London Yale University Press

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