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The Medici : portraits and politics, 1512-1570

Title
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.
Publication
  • New York, New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art, [2021]
  • New Haven, CT : Distributed by Yale University Press
  • ©2021

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Additional Authors
  • Christiansen, Keith
  • Falciani, Carlo
  • Bayer, Andrea
  • Cropper, Elizabeth, 1944-
  • Gasparotto, Davide
  • Hendler, Sefy, 1972-
  • Fenech Kroke, Antonella
  • Mozzati, Tommaso
  • Pilliod, Elizabeth
  • Siemon, Julia
  • Wolk-Simon, Linda
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), organizer, host institution.
Description
327 pages : color illustrations, portraits (chiefly color); 29 cm
Summary
"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. The Medici family had ruled Florence without interruption bewteen 1434 and 1494. Following their return to power in 1512, Cosimo I de Medici, who became the second Duke of Florence in 1537, demonstrated a particularly shrewd ability to wield culture as a political tool in order to transform Florence into a dynastic duchy and give Florentine art the central position it has held ever since. Featuring more than ninety remarkable paintings, sculptures, works on paper, and medals, this volume is written by a team of leading international authors and presents a sweeping penetrating exploration of a crucial and vibrant period in Italian art."--Front flap of dust jacket
Subject
  • Medici, House of > Art patronage > Exhibitions
  • Medici, House of > Portraits > Exhibitions
  • Medici, House of
  • 1500-1599
  • Portrait painting > Political aspects > Italy > Exhibitions
  • Portrait painting, Italian > 16th century > Exhibitions
  • Portraits, Italian > 16th century > Exhibitions
  • Nobility > Italy > Florence > Portraits > Exhibitions
  • Art patronage
  • Nobility
  • Portrait painting, Italian
  • Portraits, Italian
  • Italy
  • Italy > Florence
Genre/Form
  • Portraits.
  • Exhibition catalogs.
Note
  • "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
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-318) and index.
Contents
Power and identity in sixteenth-century Florentine portraiture / Carlo Falciani -- Vernacular identities: the Academia Fiorentina and the poetics of portraiture / Elizabeth Cropper -- g Catalogue -- From republic to Duchy, 1512-32 / Carlo Falciani -- Politics, portraiture, and the Medici Popes, 1513-34 / Linda Wolk-Simon -- Cosimo I de' Medici: lineage, family, and dynastic ambitions / Elizabeth Pilliod -- A poetics of portraiture and the legacy of Dante and Petrarch / Julia Siemon -- Cosimo and the politics of culture: reinventing Florence as a cultural capital / Sefy Hendler -- Redecorating the Palazzo Vecchio / Antonella Fenech Kroke -- Florence and Rome: Bronzino and Salviati / Carlo Falciani.
Call Number
JQF 22-975
ISBN
  • 9781588397300
  • 1588397300
LCCN
2021287372
OCLC
1198557799
Title
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.
Publisher
New York, New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art, [2021]
Distributor
New Haven, CT : Distributed by Yale University Press
Copyright Date
©2021
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-318) and index.
Chronological Term
1500-1599
Added Author
Christiansen, Keith, editor.
Falciani, Carlo, editor.
Bayer, Andrea, contributor.
Cropper, Elizabeth, 1944- contributor.
Gasparotto, Davide, contributor.
Hendler, Sefy, 1972- contributor.
Fenech Kroke, Antonella, contributor.
Mozzati, Tommaso, contributor.
Pilliod, Elizabeth, contributor.
Siemon, Julia, contributor.
Wolk-Simon, Linda, contributor.
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), organizer, host institution.
Research Call Number
JQF 22-975
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