Art and politics in Renaissance Italy : British Academy lectures / selected and introduced by George Holmes.

Title & Author:

Art and politics in Renaissance Italy : British Academy lectures / selected and introduced by George Holmes.

Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 1995.

Description:

xviii, 309 pages, 88 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Originally published: 1993.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / George Holmes -- Morals and manners of the Quattrocento / C.M. Ady (1942) -- Florence and the Great Schism / George Holmes (1989) -- Cyriac of Ancona / Bernard Ashmole (1957) -- Flavio Biondo and the Middle Ages / Denys Hay (1959) -- Leon Battista Alberti and the beginnings of Italian grammar / Cecil Grayson (1963) -- Lorenzo de'Medici : the formation of his statecraft / Nicolai Rubinstein (1977) -- Diplomacy and war in later fifteenth-century Italy / Michael Mallett (1981) -- The conscience of the Prince / D.M. Bueno de Mesquita (1979) -- The Vatican Stanze : functions and decoration / John Shearman (1971) -- The decoration of the Sistine Chapel / Johannes Wilde (1958) -- Michelangelo's prophets and sibyls / Edgar Wind (1960).

Summary:

Selection of lectures covering the period 1400-1520 illustrating the political background to the cultural flowering and the art of Florence and Rome - Florence and the Great Schism - Flavio Biondo and the Middle Ages - Lorenzo de'Medici - Vatican Stanze - Decoration of the Sistine Chapel - The Quattrocento.

ISBN:

0197261590 (pbk.)
9780197261590 (pbk.)

Subject:

Art, Renaissance Italy.
Art, Italian.
Art and state Italy.
Art patronage Italy.
Art de la Renaissance Italie.
Art italien.
Art Politique gouvernementale Italie.
Mécénat Italie.
Art and state.
Art patronage.
Art, Renaissance.
Politics and government
Italy Politics and government 1268-1559.
Italie Politique et gouvernement 1268-1559.
Italy.
Arts Related to Politics History

Added entries:

Holmes, George, 1927-2009.
British Academy.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 121095
Call No.: ID N6915.A7; ID:96-B62
Status: Available

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