Research Catalog

Title

Arts of power : three halls of state in Italy, 1300-1600 / Randolph Starn and Loren Partridge.

Author

Starn, Randolph.

Publication

Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1992.

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Additional Authors

Partridge, Loren W.

Description

xi, 374 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map; 26 cm

Series Statement

The New historicism ; 19

Uniform Title

New historicism ; 19.

Alternative Title

• Three halls of state in Italy, 1300-1600
• 3 halls of state in Italy, 1300-1600

Subject

• 1268-1559
• Rooms > Italy
• Architecture, Renaissance > Italy
• Symbolism in architecture > Italy
• Architecture, Medieval > Italy
• Architecture and state > Italy
• Public art > Italy
• Allegories
• Camera degli Sposi (Castello di San Giorgio, Mantua, Italy)
• Sala dei Nove (Palazzo pubblico (Siena, Italy))
• Sala Grande (Casa Vasari (Florence, Italy))
• Halls > Italie
• Architecture > Politique gouvernementale > Italie
• Symbolisme en architecture > Italie
• Art > Intégration à l'architecture > Italie
• Allégories
• Architecture and state
• Architecture, Medieval
• Architecture, Renaissance
• Politics and government
• Public art
• Rooms
• Symbolism in architecture
• Paleizen
• Propaganda
• Muurschilderkunst
• Politieke invloed
• Art et État > Italie > Histoire > Renaissance
• Architecture et État > Italie
• Architecture publique > Italie
• Italy > Politics and government > 1268-1559
• Italie > Politique et gouvernement > 1268-1559
• Italy
• Florence (Italie) > Palazzo Vecchio
• Mantoue (Italie) > Castello San Giorgio
• Sienne (Italie) > Palazzo pubblico
• Italy > Politique et gouvernement > 1268-1559
• Arts Related to Politics History
• Italy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-366) and index.

Contents

I. The Republican Regime of the Sala dei Nove in Siena, 1338-1340. Siena mi fe'. The Republic Faces Evil. The Republic in Writing. Writing Power. Reading the Vernacular. Latin Lessons. The Republic in Pictures. The Construction of a Republican Panorama. Patterns of Practical Knowledge. Mirrors for Magistrates. The Regime Falls, the Pictures Remain -- II. Room for a Prince: The Camera Picta in Mantua, 1465-1474. From Republics to Princely Regimes. Walls as Mirrors and Windows for the Prince. Bodies Politic. "Little Things Matter in These Affairs of Princes" What's in a Name -- Intermezzo: The Flight of the Peacock. Seeing Culture on the Ceiling of the Camera Picta. The Glance. The Measured View. The Scan. Mantegna and Momus -- III. Triumphalism: The Sala Grande in Florence and the 1565 Entry. A Tale of Two Cities Triumphant: 1530 and 1565. From Triumphs to Triumphalism. Procession and Passage. To the Victor Belong the Spoils. The Program Triumphant. A Triumph of Triumphalism in Florence. The Parade. The Persona of the Victor. The Spoils. Program and Production. Duke Cosimo I. The Programmer: Borghini. The Quartermaster: Caccini. The Artist as Impresario: Vasari -- Epilogue: Arts of Power -- Appendix 1. Inscriptions in the Sala dei Nove -- Appendix 2. Entry Arches and Sala Grande: Diagram Legends.

Call Number

JQF 17-485

ISBN

• 9780520073838
• 0520073835

LCCN

91017678

OCLC

23767940

Author

Starn, Randolph.

Title

Arts of power : three halls of state in Italy, 1300-1600 / Randolph Starn and Loren Partridge.

Imprint

Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1992.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

The New historicism ; 19

New historicism ; 19.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-366) and index.

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Table of contents

Chronological Term

1268-1559

Indexed Term

Arts Related to Politics History

Italy

Added Author

Partridge, Loren W.

Research Call Number

JQF 17-485