Author: Francesco Domenico GuerrazziPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Isabella Orsini
Author: Francesco Domenico GuerrazziPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Isabella Orsini
Author: Francesco Domenico GuerrazziPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382323966
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Medici Women
Author: Gabrielle LangdonPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 0802038255
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
The ducal court of Cosimo I de' Medici in sixteenth-century Florence was one of absolutist, rule-bound order. Portraiture especially served the dynastic pretensions of the absolutist ruler, Duke Cosimo and his consort, Eleonora di Toledo, and was part of a Herculean programme of propaganda to establish legitimacy and prestige for the new sixteenth-century Florentine court. In this engaging and original study, Gabrielle Langdon analyses selected portraits of women by Jacopo Pontormo, Agnolo Bronzino, Alessandro Allori, and other masters. She defines their function as works of art, as dynastic declarations, and as encoded documents of court culture and propaganda, illuminating Cosimo's conscious fashioning of his court portraiture in imitation of the great courts of Europe. Langdon explores the use of portraiture as a vehicle to express Medici political policy, such as with Cosimo's Hapsburg and Papal alliances in his bid to be made Grand Duke with hegemony over rival Italian princes. Stories from archives, letters, diaries, chronicles, and secret ambassadorial briefs, open up a world of fascinating, personalities, personal triumphs, human frailty, rumour, intrigue, and appalling tragedies. Lavishly illustrated, Medici Women: Portraits of Power, Love and Betrayal in the Court of Duke Cosimo I is an indispensable work for anyone with a passion for Italian renaissance history, art, and court culture.
Tullia d'Aragona. Olympia Morata. Isabella Andreini. Bianca Cappello. Olympia Pamfili. Elisabetta Sirani. La Corilla
Author: Thomas Adolphus TrollopePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Italy
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
A Decade of Italian Women
Author: Thomas Adolphus TrollopePublisher: London : Chapman and Hall
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Words on Music
Author: David RosenPublisher: Pendragon Press
ISBN: 9781576470978
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Table of contents
Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies: A-J
Author: Gaetana MarronePublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1579583903
Category : Italian literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2258
Book Description
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Gender, Sexuality, and Early Music
Author: Todd Michael BorgerdingPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780815333944
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Barons and Castellans
Author: Christine ShawPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004282769
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The military nobility – "signori di castelli", lords of castles – formed an important component of the society of Renaissance Italy, although they have often been disregarded by historians, or treated as an anomaly. In Barons and Castellans: The Military Nobility of Renaissance Italy, Christine Shaw provides the first comparative study of “lords of castles”, great and small, throughout Italy, examining their military and political significance, and how their roles changed during the Italian Wars. Her main focus is on their military resources and how they deployed them in public and private wars, in pursuit of their own interests and in the service of others, and on how their military weight affected their political standing and influence.
Beyond Isabella
Author: Sheryl E. ReissPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271097620
Category : Art patronage
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description