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Andrea Del Castagno and His Patrons

By: John Richard Spencer

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Andrea Del Castagno and His Patrons

By: John Richard Spencer

Most studies of Renaissance patronage in the arts deal with a particular patron and the artists who worked for him. John R. Spencer reverses this approach by focusing on one fifteenth-century Florentine artist, Andrea del Castagno, and his patrons. Combining social and art history, Spencer casts new light on both the career of Castagno and on the nature of art patronage in the early Renaissance. Through careful and detailed archival research, Spencer creates a fascinating portrait of Castagno's patronage as a web, at the center of which was Cosimo de' Medici, who constituted the focal point of a network of business partnerships, real estate transactions, loans, and special privileges in which the artist's patrons were enmeshed. The author constructs partial biographies of unknown and lesser-known patrons to show the relation of these patrons to each other and to the artist, demonstrating the degree to which artistic production in Renaissance Italy was tied to politics and economics. Spencer discusses each of Castagno's extant and some of his lost paintings, dating the works with greater accuracy than ever before. His understanding of the patrons and of the motivations behind the commissions makes it possible for Spencer to bring new interpretations to many of these works. This book offers a deeper understanding of a particular artist's life and work while also exploring the larger question of the unique relationship between private patrons and independent artists in the Italian Renaissance.

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Duke University Press

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082231150X

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9780822311508

Art in Renaissance Italy

By: John T. Paoletti,Gary M. Radke

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Art in Renaissance Italy

By: John T. Paoletti,Gary M. Radke

Art in Renaissance Italy' sets the art of that time in its context, exploring why it was created and in particular looking at who commissioned the palaces and cathedrals, the paintings and the sculptures.

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575

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Laurence King Publishing

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1856694399

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9781856694391

African, Asian and Middle Eastern Artists

Signatures and Monograms From 1800

By: John Castagno

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African, Asian and Middle Eastern Artists

Signatures and Monograms From 1800

By: John Castagno

John Castagno's Artists' Signatures and Monograms have become the standard reference source for galleries, museums, libraries, and collectors around the world. In African, Asian and Middle Eastern Artists Signatures and Monograms From 1800: A Directory, Castagno has collected the signatures and monograms of artists from Africa, Asia, and the Middle East—including signature examples of artists from China, India, Japan, South Africa, Israel, and many other countries. In addition to the standard signature entries, the book contains sections for monograms and initials, common surname signatures, alternative surname signatures, and symbols. It provides the researcher a reference tool not duplicated elsewhere—one that will save many hours of research.

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152

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Scarecrow Press

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1461656168

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9781461656166

Jewish Artists

Signatures and Monograms

By: John Castagno

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Jewish Artists

Signatures and Monograms

By: John Castagno

John Castagno has collected more than 1,100 signatures and monograms of Jewish artists and artists whose work reflects Jewish themes.

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637

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0810874210

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9780810874213

The Portrait in the Renaissance

By: John Pope-Hennessy

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The Portrait in the Renaissance

By: John Pope-Hennessy

A major account of Renaissance portraiture by one of the twentieth century’s most eminent art historians In this book, John Pope-Hennessy provides an unprecedented look at two centuries of experiment in portraiture during the Renaissance. Pope-Hennessy shows how the Renaissance cult of individuality brought with it a demand that the features of the individual be perpetuated, a concept first manifested in the portraits that fill the great Florentine fresco cycles and led, later in the fifteenth century, to the creation of the independent portrait by such artists as Sandro Botticelli, Antonio del Pollaiuolo, Giovanni Bellini, and Antonello da Messina. Pope-Hennessy goes on to describe the process by which Titian and the great artists of the High Renaissance transformed the portrait from a record of appearance into an analysis of character.

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384

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Princeton University Press

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0691252122

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9780691252124

The Renaissance Hospital

Healing the Body and Healing the Soul

By: Fellow at King's College Cambridge and Teaches Classics John Henderson,John Henderson,Reader in Latin Literature Cambridge University and Fellow John Henderson

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The Renaissance Hospital

Healing the Body and Healing the Soul

By: Fellow at King's College Cambridge and Teaches Classics John Henderson,John Henderson,Reader in Latin Literature Cambridge University and Fellow John Henderson

John Henderson takes us into the Renaissance hospitals of Florence, recreating the enormous barn-like wards and exploring the lives of those who received and those who administered treatment there.

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Yale University Press

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0300109954

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9780300109955

African, Asian and Middle Eastern Artists

Signatures and Monograms From 1800

By: John Castagno

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Signatures and Monograms From 1800

By: John Castagno

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Andrea Del Castagno and His Patrons

Andrea Del Castagno and His Patrons

Art in Renaissance Italy

Art in Renaissance Italy

African, Asian and Middle Eastern Artists

African, Asian and Middle Eastern Artists

Jewish Artists

Jewish Artists

The Portrait in the Renaissance

The Portrait in the Renaissance

The Renaissance Hospital

The Renaissance Hospital

African, Asian and Middle Eastern Artists

African, Asian and Middle Eastern Artists

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