Research Catalog

Title

A cultural symbiosis : Patrician art patronage and Medicean cultural politics in Florence (1530-1610) / edited by Klazina Botke and Henk Th. van Veen

Publication

Leuven : Leuven University Press, 2021

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Additional Authors

• Botke, Klazina Dieuwke
• Veen, Henk Th. van

Description

318 pages : illustrations, genealogical tables, portraits; 23 cm

Summary

Contrary to general belief, the history of the Florentine patriciate did not end with the establishment of the State of Tuscany under the Medici in 1532. Proud and self-confident patricians did not become subservient courtiers overnight, but remained significantly influential for a long period. They retained their urban identity and longstanding family traditions, while acquiring noble titles, estates, and villas at the same time. The mark that these patricians continued to leave on the city\u0027s cultural and artistic life was not ignored by the Medici grand dukes; on the contrary, they embraced these manifestations by incorporating them into their own visual expressions of power and prestige. \u0027A Cultural Symbiosis\u0027 highlights these artistic expressions through eight specific case studies, focusing on the Valori, Pucci, Ridolfi, Vecchietti, Del Nero, Salviati, Guicciardini, and Niccolini families

Alternative Title

Patrician art patronage and Medicean cultural politics in Florence (1530-1610)

Subjects

• History
• Firenze
• Toscaanse hoven
• patriciaat
• hofcultuur
• mecenaat
• Italy > Florence
• Upper class families
• Art > Political aspects
• Art patronage
• Medici, House of

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-305) and index

ISBN

• 9789462702967
• 9462702969

OCLC

• on1266214333
• 1266214333

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries