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City views in the Habsburg and Medici courts : depictions of rhetoric and rule in the sixteenth century
Ryan E. Gregg relates how the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and Duke Cosimo I of Tuscany both employed city view artists such as Anton van den Wyngaerde and Giovanni Stradano to aid in constructing authority.
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Pienza
Pienza, a small hill town in north central Italy, represents one of the major architectural masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance. Starting in 1459, under the sponsorship of Pope Pius II, it was rebuilt into a model Renaissance cityscape. Renamed in the pope's honor, Pienza is both a monument to papal will and the high point in the career of the supervising architect, Bernardo Rossellino. Because its physical state has changed only slightly since the fifteenth century, Pienza offers us a unique opportunity to see a variety of building traditions (Roman, Florentine, Sienese) and theoretical positions (Brunelleschian and Albertian) combined in an almost perfectly preserved urban environment. \"The town,\" writes Charles Mack, \"is a Renaissance Williamsburg without the artificiality of restoration.\"Pienza, the first book-length treatment of the subject in English, traces the entire redevelopment of the community, from conception through construction, and establishes Pienza's place in the story of Renaissance architecture.
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Embodiments of power
The period of the baroque (late sixteenth to mid-eighteenth centuries) saw extensive reconfiguration of European cities and their public spaces. Yet, this transformation cannot be limited merely to signifying a style of art, architecture, and decor. Rather, the dynamism, emotionality, and potential for grandeur that were inherent in the baroque style developed in close interaction with the need and desire of post-Reformation Europeans to find visual expression for the new political, confessional, and societal realities. Highly illustrated, this volume examines these complex interrelationships among architecture and art, power, religion, and society from a wide range of viewpoints and localities. From Krakow to Madrid and from Naples to Dresden, cities were reconfigured visually as well as politically and socially. Power, in both its political and architectural guises, had to be negotiated among constituents ranging from monarchs and high churchmen to ordinary citizens. Within this process, both rulers and ruled were transformed: Europe left behind the last vestiges of the medieval and arrived on the threshold of the modern.
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The Cabinet of Eros: Renaissance Mythological Painting and the
\"Isabella d'Este, the marchioness of Mantua, served for many years as the touchstone against which one could measure the collecting ambitions of Renaissance women. This owed much to the allure of Isabella herself, whose mesmerizing personality emerges from her correspondence, the abundance of archival documents pertaining to the Gonzaga court, and the survival of numerous works of art from this great patron's collection. Still, despite attempts to reach 'beyond' Isabella, she remains a paradigm not only for patronage and gender studies during the Renaissance but also for the intimately related fields of mythological painting and court literary culture.\" (Art Bulletin) Stephen J. Campbell's 2006 book, The Cabinet of Eros: Renaissance Mythological Painting and the Studiolo of Isabella d'Este, is reviewed. Its attempt to \"[reframe] important questions regarding the interpretation of the secular paintings commissioned by Isabella for her private study\" is assessed.
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