Due to planned maintenance, your school has disabled school system log-ins at this time.
You may continue shopping as a guest, or by creating a bookstore-only account.
Please complete the purchase of any items in your cart before going to this third-party site.
Also note that if you qualify for financial aid, items purchased through this site will not be subject to
reimbursement.
Hardcover. Ex-libris. NO EXPEDITED OR INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING FOR THIS ITEM
[...]
Hardcover. Ex-libris. NO EXPEDITED OR INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING FOR THIS ITEM because of size/weight. NOT Ex-library. This item is in good condition. May show moderate signs of use. Proceeds benefit the Pima County Public Library system, which serves Tucson and southern Arizona. Until further notice, USPS Priority Mail only reliable option for Hawaii.
Description:
Cosimo de' Medici (1389-1464), the fabulously wealthy banker who became the leading citizen of Florence in the fifteenth century, spent lavishly as the city's most important patron of art and literature. This remarkable book is the first comprehensive examination of the whole body of works of art and architecture commissioned by Cosimo and his sons. By looking closely at this spectacular group of commissions, we gain an entirely new picture of their patron and of the patron's point of view. Recurrent themes in the commissions -- from Fra Angelico's San Marco altarpiece to the Medici Palace -- indicate the main interests to which Cosimo's patronage gave visual expression. Dale Kent offers new insights and perspectives on the individual objects comprising the Medici oeuvre by setting them within the context of civic and popular culture in early Renaissance Florence, and of Cosimo's life as the leader of the Medici lineage and the dominant force in the governing elite.
From the wealth of available documentation on Cosimo de' Medici's life, the author considers how Cosimo's own experience influenced his patronage; how the culture of Renaissance Florence provided a common idiom for the patron, his artists, and his audience; what he preferred and intended as a patron; and how focusing on his patronage of art alters the image of him that is based on his roles as banker and politician. Cosimo was as much a product as a shaper of Florentine society, Kent concludes. She identifies civic patriotism and devotion as the main themes of his oeuvre and argues that religious imperatives may well have been more important than political ones in shaping the art for which he was responsible and itsreception.
Expand description
Product notice
Returnable at the third party seller's discretion and may come without consumable supplements like access codes, CD's, or workbooks.
Hardcover. Ex-libris. NO EXPEDITED OR INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING FOR THIS ITEM
[...]
Hardcover. Ex-libris. NO EXPEDITED OR INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING FOR THIS ITEM because of size/weight. NOT Ex-library. This item is in good condition. May show moderate signs of use. Proceeds benefit the Pima County Public Library system, which serves Tucson and southern Arizona. Until further notice, USPS Priority Mail only reliable option for Hawaii.
Hardcover. Ex-libris. NO EXPEDITED OR INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING FOR THIS ITEM
[...]
Hardcover. Ex-libris. NO EXPEDITED OR INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING FOR THIS ITEM because of size/weight. NOT Ex-library. This item is in good condition. May show moderate signs of use. Proceeds benefit the Pima County Public Library system, which serves Tucson and southern Arizona. Until further notice, USPS Priority Mail only reliable option for Hawaii.
Yale University Press, 2000. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Beautiful unopened copy,
[...]
Yale University Press, 2000. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Beautiful unopened copy, looking just about new. Lavishly illustrated on thick matte paper. Tight & square binding. Glossy jacket with neat edges, only one tiny near unnoticeable ding at lower edge to rear. HEAVY book. Benefits the Friends of the Albany, CA Library..
Yale University Press, 2000. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Beautiful unopened copy,
[...]
Yale University Press, 2000. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Beautiful unopened copy, looking just about new. Lavishly illustrated on thick matte paper. Tight & square binding. Glossy jacket with neat edges, only one tiny near unnoticeable ding at lower edge to rear. HEAVY book. Benefits the Friends of the Albany, CA Library..