Images and Identity in Fifteenth-century Florence
Rubin, Patricia Lee
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BOOK SUMMARY
Renaissance Florence, of endless fascination for the beauty of its art and architecture, is no less intriguing for its dynamic political, economic, and social life. In this book Patricia Lee Rubin crosses the boundaries of all these areas to arrive at an
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Renaissance Florence, of endless fascination for the beauty of its art and architecture, is no less intriguing for its dynamic political, economic, and social life. In this book Patricia Lee Rubin crosses the boundaries of all these areas to arrive at an original and comprehensive view of the place of images in Florentine society.
The author asks an array of questions: Why were works of art made? Who were the artists who made them, and who commissioned them? How did they look, and how were they looked at? She demonstrates that the answers to such questions illuminate the contexts in which works of art were created, and how they were valued and viewed.
Rubin seeks out the meeting places of meaning in churches, in palaces, in piazzasplaces of exchange where identities were taken on and transformed, often with the mediation of images. She concentrates on questions of vision and visuality, on seeing and being seen. With a blend of exceptional illustrations; close analyses of sacred and secular paintings by artists including Fra Angelico, Fra Filippo Lippi, Filippino Lippi, and Botticelli; and wide-ranging bibliographic essays, the book shines new light on fifteenth-century Florence, a special place that made beauty one of its defining features.
AUTHOR BIO
Patricia Lee Rubin is professor, deputy director, and head of the Research Forum, Courtauld Institute of Art, London. She is co-author (with Alison Wright) of Renaissance Florence: The Art of the 1470s and author of Giorgio Vasari: Art and History, both published by Yale University Press.
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0300123426
ISBN(13-digit): 9780300123425
Dewey Decimal: 709.45/51024
Library of Congress: 2006100423
Book Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 418
Paper Weight (lb): 3.90 lb
