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The Medici : portraits and politics, 1512-1570 /
The Medici : portraits and politics, 1512-1570 /
edited by Keith Christiansen and Carlo Falciani ; with contributions by Andrea Bayer, Elizabeth Cropper, Davide Gasparotto, Sefy Hendler, Antonella Fenech Kroke, Tommaso Mozzati, Elizabeth Pilliod, Julia Siemon, Linda Wolk-Simon.
- 327 pages : color illustrations, portraits ; 29 cm.
This catalogue is published in conjunction with "The Medici: Portraits and Politics, 1512-1570", on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, from June 26, 2021 through October 11, 2021--Colophon.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-318) and index.
Power and identity in sixteenth-century Florentine portraiture -- Vernacular identities: the Academia Fiorentina and the poetics of portraiture -- Catalogue: From republic to Duchy, 1512-32 -- Politics, portraiture, and the Medici Popes, 1513-34 -- Cosimo I de' Medici: lineage, family, and dynastic ambitions -- A poetics of portraiture and the legacy of Dante and Petrarch -- Cosimo and the politics of culture: reinventing Florence as a cultural capital -- Redecorating the Palazzo Vecchio -- Florence and Rome: Bronzino and Salviati / Carlo Falciani / Elizabeth Cropper / Carlo Falciani / Linda Wolk-Simon / Elizabeth Pilliod / Julia Siemon / Sefy Hendler / Antonella Fenech Kroke / Carlo Falciani.
Between 1512 and 1570, Florence underwent dramatic political transformations. As citizens jockeyed for prominence, portraits became an essential means not only of recording likeness but also of conveying a sitter's character, social position, and cultural ambitions. This book explores the ways that painters, including Jacopo Pontormo, Agnolo Bronzino, and Francesco Salviati, sculptors such as Benvenuto Cellini, and others, endowed Florentine portraiture with the erudite and self-consciously stylish character that made it so distinctive. Although the Medici family had ruled Florence since 1434, Cosimo I de Medici, who became the second Duke of Florence in 1537, demonstrated a particularly shrewd use of culture as a political tool to transform Florence into a dynastic duchy and give Florentine art the central position it has held ever since. Featuring 100 paintings, sculptures, works on paper, and medals, this volume presents an exploration of a crucial and vibrant period in Italian art.
9781588397300 1588397300
2021287372
Medici, House of--In motion pictures--Exhibitions.
Medici, House of--Portraits
Portrait painting--Political aspects--Italy--Exhibitions.
Portrait painting, Italian--16th century--Exhibitions.
Portraits, Italian--16th century--Exhibitions.
Nobility--Italy--Portraits
N5273.2.M43 / M43 2021
This catalogue is published in conjunction with "The Medici: Portraits and Politics, 1512-1570", on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, from June 26, 2021 through October 11, 2021--Colophon.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-318) and index.
Power and identity in sixteenth-century Florentine portraiture -- Vernacular identities: the Academia Fiorentina and the poetics of portraiture -- Catalogue: From republic to Duchy, 1512-32 -- Politics, portraiture, and the Medici Popes, 1513-34 -- Cosimo I de' Medici: lineage, family, and dynastic ambitions -- A poetics of portraiture and the legacy of Dante and Petrarch -- Cosimo and the politics of culture: reinventing Florence as a cultural capital -- Redecorating the Palazzo Vecchio -- Florence and Rome: Bronzino and Salviati / Carlo Falciani / Elizabeth Cropper / Carlo Falciani / Linda Wolk-Simon / Elizabeth Pilliod / Julia Siemon / Sefy Hendler / Antonella Fenech Kroke / Carlo Falciani.
Between 1512 and 1570, Florence underwent dramatic political transformations. As citizens jockeyed for prominence, portraits became an essential means not only of recording likeness but also of conveying a sitter's character, social position, and cultural ambitions. This book explores the ways that painters, including Jacopo Pontormo, Agnolo Bronzino, and Francesco Salviati, sculptors such as Benvenuto Cellini, and others, endowed Florentine portraiture with the erudite and self-consciously stylish character that made it so distinctive. Although the Medici family had ruled Florence since 1434, Cosimo I de Medici, who became the second Duke of Florence in 1537, demonstrated a particularly shrewd use of culture as a political tool to transform Florence into a dynastic duchy and give Florentine art the central position it has held ever since. Featuring 100 paintings, sculptures, works on paper, and medals, this volume presents an exploration of a crucial and vibrant period in Italian art.
9781588397300 1588397300
2021287372
Medici, House of--In motion pictures--Exhibitions.
Medici, House of--Portraits
Portrait painting--Political aspects--Italy--Exhibitions.
Portrait painting, Italian--16th century--Exhibitions.
Portraits, Italian--16th century--Exhibitions.
Nobility--Italy--Portraits
N5273.2.M43 / M43 2021
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