Art of Renaissance Florence, 1400-1600

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Preface and acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Renaissance -- Humanism -- Independent portraits -- Perspective -- Narrative -- The human body -- Classicizing architecture -- The status of artists -- Pre-Renaissance Florence -- Roman and early Medieval Florence -- People's government -- The priorate -- The Priors' Palace -- Piazza della Signoria and Priors' Loggia -- Final circuit of walls and Florentine expansion -- The Cathedral and Or San Michele -- I. Florence under the Albizzi and the Medici, 1400-1494 -- 1. Civic architecture and urbanism -- Brunelleschi's Foundling Hospital -- Piazza della SS. Annunziata -- 2. Freestanding public sculpture -- Cathedral buttress figures -- Donatello's marble David -- Or San Michele, I -- Donatello's St. Mark -- Nanni di Banco's Four crowned saints -- Ghiberti's St. John the Baptist -- Donatello's St. George -- Donatello's St. Louis of Toulouse -- Campanile -- Donatello's Abraham and Isaac -- Donatello's Zuccone -- Or San Michele, II -- Verrocchio's Christ and doubting Thomas -- 3. Ecclesiastical architecture -- The cathedral dome -- S. Lorenzo -- The old sacristy -- The church -- S. Marco -- The church and monastery -- The library -- S. Spirito -- The façade of S. Maria Novella -- 4. The Baptistery doors -- Competition reliefs -- Brunelleschi -- Ghiberti -- Ghiberti's first doors -- Annunciation -- Ghiberti's Gates of paradise -- Creation of Adam and Eve, Temptation and fall, Expulsion from Paradise -- Jacob and Esau -- Solomon and Sheba -- 5. Altarpieces and chapels -- S. Maria degli Angeli : Lorenzo Monaco's Coronation of the virgin -- S. Maria Novella, I : Masaccio's Trinity -- S. Maria del Carmine : Masaccio and Masolino's Brancacci Chapel -- Temptation and fall and Expulsion from Paradise -- Tribute money -- Peter heals with his shadow and The death of Ananias -- S. Lorenzo, I : old sacristy -- Buggiano's sarcophagus -- Donatello's decoration -- S. Marco : high altar and cells -- Fra Angelico's S. Marco altarpiece -- Fra Angelico's Annunciation -- SS. Annunziata, I : Castagno's Trinity with St. Jerome -- S. Miniato al Monte : the Cardinal of Portugal's Chapel -- North wall -- East wall -- West wall -- S. Lorenzo, II -- Verrocchio's tomb of Cosimo il Vecchio -- Donatello's bronze pulpits -- Verrocchio's tomb of Piero and Giovanni de' Medici, old sacristy -- SS. Annunziata, II : Antonio and Piero Pollaiuolo's St. Sebastian -- S. Trinita : Ghirlandaio's Sassetti Chapel -- Confirmation of the rule of St. Francis -- St. Francis resurrects a boy who fell from a palace window in 1266 -- Nativity-- S. Maria Novella, II : Filippino Lippi's Strozzi Chapel -- St. John raises Drusiana -- St. Philip exorcises a dragon -- 6. Refectories -- S. Apollonia : Castagno's Last supper -- S. Marco : Ghirlandaio's Last supper -- 7. Palaces -- The Medici Palace -- The Rucellai Palace -- The Pitti Palace, I -- The Strozzi Palace -- 8. Halls of state : Palazzo Vecchio, I -- Uccello's Battle of S. Romano -- Ghirlandaio's Sala dei Gigli -- 9. Palace chapels : the Medici Palace -- Gozzoli's Journey of the Magi -- Filippo Lippi's Nativity -- 10. Freestanding palace sculpture : the Medici Palace -- Donatello's bronze David -- Donatello's bronze Judith and Holofernes -- 11. Wedding chests and birth trays -- Scheggia's Reconciliation between the Romans and Sabines -- Masaccio's Lying-in of a Florentine lady -- 12. Spalliera painting -- Botticelli's Primavera -- Botticelli's Nastagio degli Onesti -- 13. Portraits -- Uccello's Young man -- Filippo Lippi's Lorenzo Scolari and Angiola Sapiti -- Piero di Cosimo's Cleopatra -- Mino da Fiesole's Piero de' Medici -- Botticelli's Woman at a window -- Botticelli's Man holding a medallion of Cosimo il Vecchio --Leonardo's Ginevra de' Benci -- 14. Devotional works -- Donatello's Shaw Madonna -- Filippo Lippi's Virgin and child with two angels -- Botticelli's Madonna of the Magnificat -- Michelangelo's Madonna of the Steps --
II. Florence under the Second Republic, 1494-1512 -- 15. Halls of state : Palazzo Vecchio, II -- Sala Grande, I -- Leonardo's Battle of Anghiari -- Michelangelo's Battle of Cascina -- 16. Freestanding public sculpture -- Michelangelo's David -- 17. Altarpieces -- SS. Annunziata : Leonardo's St. Anne Cartoon -- Palazzo Vecchio, Sala Grande : Fra Bartolomeo's St. Anne altarpiece -- 18. Portraits -- Leonardo's Mona Lisa -- Raphael's portraits of Agnolo and Maddalena Doni -- 19. Devotional works -- Michelangelo's Doni Tondo -- Raphael's Madonna della Sedia --
III. Florence under the Medici popes, 1513-1534 -- 20. Civic architecture and urbanism -- Piazza della SS. Annunziata -- 21. Freestanding palace sculpture : the Medici Palace -- Bandinelli's Orpheus with Cerberus -- 22. Chapels and libraries : S. Lorenzo -- Michelangelo's new sacristy -- Michelangelo's Laurentian library -- 23. Altarpieces and devotional works -- S. Francesco : Sarto's Madonna of the Harpies -- Rosso's Moses defending the daughters of Jethro -- S. Felicità : Pontormo's Deposition -- 24. Portraits -- Sarto's Man with a book -- Sarto's Woman with Petrarch's poems -- Rosso's Yong man --
IV. Florence under the Medici dukes, 1531-1600 -- 25. Earlier freestanding public sculpture -- Bandinelli's Hercules and Cacus -- 26. Palace chapels : Palazzo Vecchio -- Bronzino's Chapel of Eleonora -- Altarpiece -- Altar wall and St. Michael -- Crossing of the Red Sea and St. Francis -- 27. Palaces : Pitti Palace, II, and Boboli Gardens -- 28. Churches and church decoration -- Vasari's renovation of S. Croce and S. Maria Novella -- S. Croce : Vasari's Doubting Thomas -- 29. Civic architecture and urbanism -- Tasso's Mercato Nuovo -- Vasari's Uffizi -- 30. Later freestanding public sculpture -- Cellini's Perseus -- Ammannati's Neptune fountain -- Danti's Rigor, equity, and Cosimo I as Augustus -- Giambologna's Cosimo I in armor -- Giambologna's Rape of the Sabines -- Giambologna's Equestrian monument to Cosimo I -- 31. Portraits -- Bronzino's Ugolino Martelli -- Bronzino's Cosimo I as Orpheus -- Bronzino's Cosimo I in armor -- Bronzino's Eleonora of Toledo with her son Giovanni -- Vasari's Apotheosis of Cosimo I -- 32. Halls of state : Palazzo Vecchio, III -- Salviati's Sala di Udienza -- Bandinelli and Vasari's Sala Grande, II -- Genealogy of the Medici family -- Timeline -- Glossary -- Artists' biographies -- Selected bibliography -- List of illustrations and picture credits -- Index.
"In this absorbing illustrated history, history. Loren Partridge takes the reader on an insightful tour of Renaissance Florence and sheds new light on its celebrated art and culture by examining the city's great architectural and artistic achievements in their political, intellectual, and religious contexts. This essential and accessible text. the only up-to-date volume on Renaissance Florence currently available, incorporates insights from recent scholarship. including gender studies, while emphasizing the artists' social status, rivalries, and innovations. The result is a multileveled exploration of how the celebrated Florentine culture formally registers in specific works of art or architecture and how these works interactively informed and often shaped the culture."--BOOK JACKET.

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Art of Renaissance Florence submitted by maywang on June 26, 2021, 5:32pm Beautiful art, describes the history of art in Florence pretty nicely.