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Author:
D'Arista, Carla, author.
Title:
The Pucci of Florence : patronage and politics in Renaissance Italy / by Carla D'Arista.
Publisher:
Harvey Miller Publishers,
Copyright Date:
2020
Description:
359 pages : color illustrations, maps, plans, genealogical tables ; 29 cm.
Subject:
Puccini family.
Puccini family.
Art patronage--Florence--Florence--History.
Art--History.--Florence--Florence--History.
Architecture, Renaissance--Florence.--Florence.
Florence (Italy)--History--1421-1737.
Architecture, Renaissance.
Art patronage.
Art--Political aspects.
Italy--Florence.
1421-1737
History.
Notes:
Genealogical tables on endpapers. Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-336) and index.
Summary:
Shrewd and ruthless, the Pucci were Medici loyalists whose political and cultural alignment with the most powerful family in Renaissance Florence was rewarded with wealth and influence. The Pucci family's martial support for the Medici in the ugly business of ruling Tuscany drove their transformation from a clan of minor guildsmen to a noble dynasty with three cardinals to its name. Over the next centuries, they showcased their exalted status with art and architecture that mirrored Medici tastes and reflected the values of civic humanism. The political and religious turmoil of the High Renaissance is writ large in this vivid portrait of the Pucci cardinals and their artistic patronage, a cultural biography inflected by the expulsion of the Medici from Florence, the Sack of Rome, the Reformation, and the occupation of Italy by Emperor Charles V.00New archival evidence documents the chapels, palaces, and villas that were built, expanded, and decorated by the Pucci family in Rome, Tuscany, and Umbria. These celebrated projects were carried out by luminaries of Renaissance art and architecture: Michelozzo, the Pollaiuolo brothers, the Sangallo family, Baccio d?Agnolo, the Montelupo workshop, and others. A remarkable body of inventories reveals how the family's trials and tribulations shaped the fate of their estates and illustrates the role luxury goods played in the social ambitions of this newly-arrived family. Finally, a previously unknown catalogue of Palazzo Pucci tells the tale of the nineteenth-century dispersal of the family?s priceless Renaissance artworks, a collection that once paralleled the splendor of the Medici court.
Series:
The Medici Archive Project
ISBN:
1912554259
9781912554256
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1233319290
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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