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Women, Patronage, and Salvation in Renaissance Florence - Lucrezia Tornabuoni and the Chapel of the Medici Palace (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Women, Patronage, and Salvation in Renaissance Florence - Lucrezia Tornabuoni and the Chapel of the Medici Palace (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Visual Culture in Early Modernity
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Long obfuscated by modern definitions of historical evidence and
art patronage, Lucrezia Tornabuoni de' Medici's impact on the
visual world of her time comes to light in this book, the first
full-length scholarly argument for a lay woman's contributions to
the visual arts of fifteenth-century Florence. This focused
investigation of the Medici family's domestic altarpiece, Filippo
Lippi's Adoration of the Christ Child, is broad in its
ramifications. Mapping out the cultural network of gender, piety,
and power in which Lippi's painting was originally embedded, author
Stefanie Solum challenges the received wisdom that women played
little part in actively shaping visual culture during the
Florentine Quattrocento. She uses visual evidence never before
brought to bear on the topic to reveal that Lucrezia Tornabuoni -
shrewd power-broker, pious poetess, and mother of the 'Magnificent'
Lorenzo de' Medici - also had a profound impact on the visual arts.
Lucrezia emerges as a fascinating key to understanding the ways in
which female lay religiosity created the visual world of
Renaissance Florence. The Medici case study establishes, at long
last, a robust historical basis for the assertion of women's agency
and patronage in the deeply patriarchal and artistically dynamic
society of Quattrocento Florence. As such, it offers a new paradigm
for the understanding, and future study, of female patronage during
this period.
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