Main entry:

Starn, Randolph.

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1992.

Description:

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

Series:

The New historicism ; 19

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

Summary:

The three rooms examined are Ambrogio Lorenzetti's Sala dei Nove in Siena (1338-40), Andrea Mantegna's Camera Picta in Mantua (1465-74), and Giorgio Vasari's Sala Grande in Florence (1563-71), where the wedding procession of Giovanna of Austria and Francesco de'Medici culminated in 1565.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

9780520073838 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0520073835 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Lorenzetti, Ambrogio, -ca. 1384.
Mantegna, Andrea, 1431-1506.
Vasari, Giorgio, 1511-1574.
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.
Pièces (Architecture) Italie.
Architecture médiévale Italie.
allegory (artistic device)
21.11 wall painting.
Architecture and state.
Architecture, Medieval.
Architecture, Renaissance.
Politics and government
Public art.
Rooms.
Symbolism in architecture.
Paleizen.
Propaganda.
Muurschilderkunst.
Politieke invloed.
Corridors Italy.
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.
Arts Related to Politics History

Form/genre:

Allegories.
Allégories.

Added entries:

Partridge, Loren W.
New historicism ; 19.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 72498
Call No.: ID:92-B1246
Status: Available