Art of Renaissance Florence, 1400–1600 [Paperback]

In this absorbing illustrated 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 multilevel 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.

Loren Partridgeis Professor of the Art of the Italian Renaissance at the University of California, Berkeley. His many books includeMichelangelo, Last Judgment: A Glorious Restoration, The Art of Renaissance Rome, 1400-1600,andMichelangelo: The Sistine Chapel Ceiling.He has been honored by Fulbright, Kress, Guggenheim, and Getty fellowships; grants from the American Academy in Rome and the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton; and the chairmanship of the departments of both History of Art and Art Practice at Berkeley.

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
Peoples Government
The Priorate
The Priors Palace
Piazza della Signoria and the Priors Loggia
Final Circuit of Walls and Florentine Expansion
The Cathedral and Or San Michele

I Florence Under the Albizzi and the Medici, 14001494

1 Civic Architecture and Urbanism
Brunelleschis Foundling Hospital
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