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Arts of Power: Three Halls of State in Italy, 1300-1600

Arts of Power: Three Halls of State in Italy, 1300-1600

Starn, Randolph
Partridge, Loren

Hardcover

Series: Voices from Asia, Book 19

Art Criticism & TheoryMedieval & Renaissance HistoryGeneral Architecture

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ISBN10: 0520073835
ISBN13: 9780520073838
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: May 27 1992
Pages: 374
Language: English
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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