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The Anglo-Florentine Renaissance : art for the early Tudors

Sicca, Cinzia Maria, editor of compilation, Waldman, Louis Alexander, editor of compilation

2012

Overview

\"Under the rule of Henry VII (r. 1485-1509) England became a powerful nation. The Tudor court sought to express its worldliness and political clout through major artistic commissions, employing Florentine sculptors and painters to create lavish new interiors, suitable for entertaining foreign dignitaries, for its royal palaces. These were exemplified by Henry VIII's palace of Nonsuch, so named because no other palace could match its magnificence. Italian sculpture, painting, and tapestries of the day reflected an interest in portraiture and dynastic monuments, epitomized in England by the royal tomb projects created by Baccio Bandinelli, Benedetto da Rovezzano, and Pietro Torrigiani. Generously illustrated throughout, The Anglo-Florentine Renaissance traces the artistic links between Medicean Florence and Tudor England through essays by an international team of scholars and explores how the language of Florentine art effectively expressed England's political aspirations and rose to prominence as a new international courtly style\"--Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Yale Center for British Art and The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art : Distributed by Yale University Press
• Subject: Henry VII, King of England, 1457-1509 Art patronage. / Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547 Art patronage. / Art, Renaissance Italy Florence. / Art, Italian Italy Florence. / Art Political aspects England History To 1500. / Art Political aspects England History 16th century.
• ISBN: 9780300176087, 0300176082

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
N6921.F7 A39 2012	1	BOOK	ARTS