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Leone Leoni and the Status of the Artist at the End of the Renaissance (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Leone Leoni and the Status of the Artist at the End of the Renaissance (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Visual Culture in Early Modernity
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The late Renaissance sculptor Leone Leoni (1509-1590) came from
modest beginnings, but died as a nobleman and knight. His
remarkable leap in status from his humble birth to a stonemason's
family, to his time as a galley slave, to living as a nobleman and
courtier in Milan provide a specific case study of an artist's
struggle and triumph over existing social structures that
marginalized the Renaissance artist. Based on a wealth of
discoveries in archival documents, correspondence, and contemporary
literature, the author examines the strategies Leoni employed to
achieve his high social position, such as the friendships he
formed, the type of education he sought out, the artistic imagery
he employed, and the aristocratic trappings he donned. Leoni's
multiple roles (imperial sculptor, aristocrat, man of erudition,
and criminal), the visual manifestations of these roles in his
house, collection, and tomb, the form and meaning of the artistic
commissions he undertook, and the particular successes he enjoyed
are here situated within the complex political, social and economic
contexts of northern Italy and the Spanish court in the sixteenth
century.
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