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17%OFFDr. Jill Burke - Changing Patrons - 9780271023625 - V9780271023625
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Changing Patrons

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Description for Changing Patrons hardcover. Num Pages: 256 pages, 64 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; ACND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 265 x 189 x 25. Weight in Grams: 804.

To whom should we ascribe the great flowering of the arts in Renaissance Italy? Artists like Botticelli and Michelangelo? Or wealthy, discerning patrons like Cosimo de' Medici? In recent years, scholars have attributed great importance to the role played by patrons, arguing that some should even be regarded as artists in their own right. This approach receives sharp challenge in Jill Burke's Changing Patrons, a book that draws heavily upon the author's discoveries in Florentine archives, tracing the many profound transformations in patrons' relations to the visual world of fifteenth-century Florence. Looking closely at two of the city's upwardly mobile ... Read more

Changing Patrons combines visual analysis with history and anthropology to propose new interpretations of the art created by, among others, Botticelli, Filippino Lippi, and Raphael. Genuinely interdisciplinary, the book also casts light on broad issues of identity, power relations, and the visual arts in Florence, the cradle of the Renaissance.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
University Park, United States
ISBN
9780271023625
SKU
V9780271023625
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99-1

About Dr. Jill Burke
Jill Burke is AHRB Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Art History Department, University of Edinburgh. In 2000–2001, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies.

Reviews for Changing Patrons
“No one writing about Florentine and Italian art history will be able to ignore this elegant and probing book.” —F.W. Kent, Director,Monash University at Prato “Probing, concise and grounded in extensive research, Jill Burke’s Changing Patrons: Social Identity and the Visual Arts in Renaissance Florence is a major study in the current vein. . . . Drawing continually on ... Read more

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