Arts of Power
Three Halls of State in Italy, 1300-1600
1st Edition
Published on 12. October 2020
402 pages
978-0-520-32878-5 (ISBN)
Description
Jacob Burckhardt claimed that the state in Renaissance Italy became a work of art. In this book, the authors illiminate the corollary: that art in Italy became a work of state. They study centres of power under three distinctive governments - a civic republic of the 14th century, a princely court of the 15th, and an absolutist state of the 16th. The authors argue that, no less than armies, laws and taxes, painted halls of state were strategic instruments, tactical weapons and technical machines of government.
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Content
- Intro
- CONTENTS
- PHOTOGRAPH CREDITS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- I. The Republican Regime of the Sala dei Nove in Siena, 1338-1340
- II. Room for a Prince: The Camera Picta in Mantua, 1465-1474
- III. Triumphalism: The Sala Grande in Florence and the 1565 Entry
- Epilogue: Arts of Power
- Appendix 1. Inscriptions in the Sala dei Nove
- Appendix 2. Entry Arches and Sala Grande: Diagram Legends
- Notes
- Index
