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Artistic exchange and cultural translation in the Italian renaissance city
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004
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9780521826884

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Considering the reception of the early modern culture of Florence, Rome, and Venice in other centers of the Italic peninsula, this book reexamines the Renaissance as a form of translation of a past culture. It assumes that the Renaissance attempted to assimilate the lost, or fragmentary, worlds of the Roman emperors, the Greek Platonists, and the ancient Egyptians. These essays, accordingly, explore how the processes of cultural self-definition varied between the Italian urban centers in the early modern period, well before the formation of a distinct Italian national identity.


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This collection of 12 essays by American and British scholars offers an intriguing new approach to understanding Italian Renaissance art. Rather than segregating regional styles, the editors propose that these historically imposed borders were actually quite permeable, resulting in a form of "cultural translation" as artistic ideas flowed between various urban centers of Italy from 1400 through 1550. A range of methodologies and a seemingly eclectic mix of subjects include contractual exchanges between artists and patrons; copying practices; tomb monuments; the patronage of the Este, the Medici, and Giovanni II Bentivoglio; the Egyptian "renaissance" in Rome; garden design; and the intellectual orthodoxy of Marsilio Ficino. They are nevertheless well-framed in three distinct sections, each of which is usefully introduced. Although Florence still plays a central role, much of the research here explores new cultural territory in such locations as Bologna, San Gimignano, Naples, and Ancona. Artists given significant attention include Filippo Lippi, Bertoldo di Giovanni, Mino da Fiesole, Verrocchio, and Tura. Accompanied by adequate black-and-white illustrations and full scholarly apparatus, the essays are well written and edited but clearly aimed at a scholarly audience; the book is definitely for research collections. ^BSumming Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals. J. K. Dabbs University of Minnesota--Morris


Table of Contents

Introduction: art, identity and cultural translation in Renaissance ItalyStephen J. Campbell and Stephen J. Milner
Part I How to Translate
1 Subject matters: contracts, designs and the exchange of ideas between painters and clients in Renaissance ItalyMichelle O'Malley
2 Copying practices and marketing strategies in a late fifteenth-century painter's workshopMegan Holmes
3 Mino da Fiesole's Forteguerri Tomb: a 'Florentine' monument inRome Shelley Zuraw
4 Bertoldo di Giovanni, republican court artist Luke Syson
Part II Regional Identities and the Encounter with Florence
5 'Our eagles always held fast to your lilies': the Este, the Medici, and the negotiation of cultural identityStephen J. Campbell
6 Giovanni Il Bentovoglio and the uses of chivalry: creating a republican court in late fifteenth-century BolognaGeorgia Clarke
7 'Acqua viva e corrent': private display and public distribution of fresh water at the Neapolitan villa of Poggioreale as a hydraulic model for sixteenth-century Medici gardensBruce L. Edelstein
8 The politics of patronage: Verrocchio, Pollaiuolo and the Forteguerri monumentStephen Milner
9 Between legend, history and power politics: the Santa Fina Chapel in San GimignanoDeborah Krohn
Part III Negotiating the Cultural Other
10 From center to periphery in the Florentine intellectual field: orthodoxy reconsideredChristopher Celenza
11 The Sphinx in the piazza: Egyptian monuments and urban spaces in Renaissance ItalyBrian A. Curran
12 Immigrants and church patronage in sixteenth-centuryAncona Morten Steen Hansen