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Baccio Bandinelli and Art at the Medici Court: A Corpus of Early Modern Sources, Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 251)

Baccio Bandinelli and Art at the Medici Court: A Corpus of Early Modern Sources, Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 251)

Waldman, Louis A.

Hardcover

Series: Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society

Drawing InstructionEuropean Art

ISBN10: 0871692511
ISBN13: 9780871692511
Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
Published: Jan 1 2004
Pages: 935
Weight: 4.15
Height: 2.00 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
More than five centuries after his birth, the contradictions embodied by the Florentine sculptor Baccio Bandinelli (1493-1560) remain as mysterious as ever. Revered by contemporaries as one of the most important sculptors of his time, he was reviled by his enemies as a truculent, foul-mouthed, avaricious, sycophantic, craven humbug. But the originality & power of Bandinelli's work, & the long shadow it cast over the arts in 16th-cent. Florence & Rome, are as clear today as they were to the artists Medici patrons, who recognized his art as a potent tool for constructing an image of dynastic legitimacy. Based on a decade of research in archives all over Italy, this book brings this great, but often neglected, Renaissance artist into sharper focus for modern scholarship. It comprises a comprehensive collection of the documentation on Bandinelli's life & work. The great majority of the texts included in this volume were discovered by the author & are published for the first time, & many come from the private archive of the Bandinelli family. All the documents are furnished with historical commentary and textual apparatus discussing their broader historical context, problems of chronology & interpretation, & later interpolations -- including hundreds of forged passages inserted by the artist's grandson, genealogist Baccio Bandinelli the Younger (1578-1636), whose role as forger of the Bandinelli legacy is exposed here for the first time. An incomparable achievement of scholarship. A very sizable contribution to the entire range of the Renaissance art historical academic community.

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