Art of Renaissance Florence, 1400-1600
In this absorbing illustrated history, Loren Partridge takes the reader on an insightful tour of Renaissance Florence and sheds new light on its celebrated art and culture by examining the city's great architectural and artistic achievements in their political, intellectual, and religious contexts. This essential and accessible text, the only up-to-date volume on Renaissance Florence currently available, incorporates insights from recent scholarship, including gender studies, while...
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"Rich and engaging. This account of Florentine art tells the story of who commissioned these works, who made them, where they were seen, and how they were experienced and understood by their viewers. Includes a useful timeline, glossary, and series of artists' biographies."—Patricia L. Reilly, Swarthmore College"An extraordinarily useful book, not only for teachers, but also for historically minded travelers interested in an illustrated guide to the art of Renaissance Florence."—Evelyn Lincoln, Brown University"Clear and compelling. The well-chosen illustrations include ground plans and diagrams of key architectural monuments and sculpture. The updated, judicious bibliography is a resource for anyone tackling the vast scholarship on the art of Renaissance Florence."—Cristelle Baskins, editor of The Triumph of Marriage: Painted Cassoni of the Renaissance
Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction Renaissance Humanism Independent Portraits Perspective Narrative The Human Body Classicizing Architecture The Status of ArtistsPre-Renaissance Florence Roman and Early Medieval Florence People's Government The Priorate The Priors' Palace Piazza della Signoria and the Priors' Loggia Final Circuit of Walls and Florentine Expansion The Cathedral and Or San MicheleI Florence Under the Albizzi and the Medici, 1400-1494 1 Civic Architecture and Urbanism Brunelleschi's Foundling Hospital Piazza della SS. Annunziata2 Freestanding Public Sculpture Cathedral Buttress Figures Donatello's Marble David Or San Michele, I Donatello's St. Mark Nanni di Banco's Four Crowned Saints Ghiberti's St. John the Baptist Donatello's St. George Donatello's St. Louis of Toulouse Campanile Donatello's Abraham and Isaac Donatello's Zuccone Or San Michele, II Verrocchio's Christ and Doubting Thomas3 Ecclesiastical Architecture The Cathedral Dome S. Lorenzo The Old Sacristy The Church S. Marco The Church and Monastery The Library S. Spirito The Façade of S. Maria Novella4 The Baptistery Doors Competition Reliefs Brunelleschi Ghiberti Ghiberti's First Doors Annunciation Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise Creation of Adam and Eve, Temptation and Fall, Expulsion from Paradise Jacob and Esau Solomon and Sheba5 Altarpieces and Chapels S. Maria degli Angeli: Lorenzo Monaco's Coronation of the Virgin S. Maria Novella, I: Masaccio's Trinity S. Maria del Carmine: Masaccio and Masolino's Brancacci Chapel Temptation and Fall and Expulsion from Paradise Tribute Money Peter Heals with His Shadow and Death of Ananias S. Lorenzo, I: Old Sacristy Buggiano's Sarcophagus Donatello's Decoration S. Marco: High Altarpiece and Cells Fra Angelico's S. Marco Altarpiece Fra Angelico's Annunciation SS. Annunziata, I: Castagno's Trinity with St. Jerome S. Miniato al Monte: The Cardinal of Portugal's Chapel North Wall East Wall West Wall S. Lorenzo, II Verrocchio's Tomb of Cosimo il Vecchio Donatello's Bronze Pulpits Verrocchio's Tomb of Piero and Giovanni de' Medici, Old Sacristy SS. Annunziata, II: Antonio and Piero Pollaiuolo's St. Sebastian S. Trinita: Ghirlandaio's Sassetti Chapel Confirmation of the Rule of St. Francis St. Francis Resurrects a Boy Who Fell from a Palace Window in 1266Nativity S. Maria Novella, II: Filippino Lippi's Strozzi Chapel St. John Raises Drusiana St. Philip Exorcises a Dragon6 Refectories S. Apollonia: Castagno's Last Supper S. Marco: Ghirlandaio's Last Supper7 Palaces The Medici Palace The Rucellai Palace The Pitti Palace, I The Strozzi Palace8 Halls of State: Palazzo Vecchio, I Uccello's Battle of S. Romano Ghirlandaio's Sala dei Gigli9 Palace Chapels: The Medici Palace Gozzoli's Journey of the Magi Filippo Lippi's Nativity10 Freestanding Palace Sculpture: The Medici Palace Donatello's Bronze David Donatello's Bronze Judith and Holofernes11 Wedding Chests and Birth Trays Scheggia's Reconciliation between the Romans and the Sabines Masaccio's Lying-in of a Florentine Lady12 Spalliera Painting Botticelli's Primavera Botticelli's Nastagio degli Onesti13 Portraits Uccello's Young Man Filippo Lippi's Lorenzo Scolari and Angiola Sapiti Piero di Cosimo's Cleopatra Mino da Fiesole's Piero de' Medici Botticelli's Woman at a Window Botticelli's Man Holding a Medallion of Cosimo il Vecchio Leonardo's Ginevra de' Benci14 Devotional Works Donatello's Shaw Madonna Filippo Lippi's Virgin and Child with Two Angels Botticelli's Madonna of the Magnificat Michelangelo's Madonna of the StepsII Florence Under the Second Republic, 1494-1512 15 Halls of State: Palazzo Vecchio, II Sala Grande, I Leonardo's Battle of Anghiari Michelangelo's Battle of Cascina16 Freestanding Public Sculpture Michelangelo's David17 Altarpieces SS. Annunziata: Leonardo's St. Anne Cartoon Palazzo Vecchio, Sala Grande: Fra Bartolomeo's St. Anne Altarpiece18 Portraits Leonardo's Mona Lisa Raphael's Portraits of Agnolo and Maddalena Doni19 Devotional Works Michelangelo's Doni Tondo Raphael's Madonna della SediaIII Florence Under the Medici Popes, 1513-1534 20 Civic Architecture and Urbanism Piazza della SS. Annunziata21 Freestanding Palace Sculpture: The Medici Palace Bandinelli's Orpheus with Cerberus22 Chapels and Libraries: S. Lorenzo Michelangelo's New Sacristy Michelangelo's Laurentian Library23 Altarpieces and Devotional Works S. Francesco: Sarto's Madonna of the Harpies Rosso's Moses Defending and the Daughters of Jethro S. Felicità: Pontormo's Deposition24 Portraits Sarto's Man with a Book Sarto's Woman with Petrarch's Poems Rosso's Young ManIV Florence Under the Medici Dukes, 1531-1600 25 Earlier Freestanding Public Sculpture Bandinelli's Hercules and Cacus26 Palace Chapels: Palazzo Vecchio Bronzino's Chapel of Eleonora Altarpiece Altar Wall and St. Michael Crossing of the Red Sea and St. Francis27 Palaces: Pitti Palace, II and Boboli Gardens 28 Churches and Church Decoration Vasari's Renovation of S. Croce and S. Maria Novella S. Croce: Vasari's Doubting Thomas29 Civic Architecture and Urbanism Tasso's Mercato Nuovo Vasari's Uffizi30 Later Freestanding Public Sculpture Cellini's Perseus Ammannati's Neptune Fountain Danti's Rigor, Equity, and Cosimo I as Augustus Giambologna's Cosimo I in Armor Giambologna's Rape of the Sabines Giambologna's Equestrian Monument to Cosimo I31 Portraits Bronzino's Ugolino Martelli Bronzino's Cosimo I as Orpheus Bronzino's Cosimo I in Armor Bronzino's Eleonora of Toledo with Her Son Giovanni Vasari's Apotheosis of Cosimo I32 Halls of State: Palazzo Vecchio, III Salviati's Sala di Udienza Bandinelli and Vasari's Sala Grande, IIGenealogy of the Medici Timeline Glossary Artists' Biographies Selected Bibliography List of Illustrations Index
