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Hidden in Plain Sight: Covert Criticism of the Medici in Renaissance Florence

Hidden in Plain Sight: Covert Criticism of the Medici in Renaissance Florence

Ward, James O.
Nichols, Stephen G.

Hardcover

Series: Medieval Interventions, Book 6

Art HistoryAncient GreeceItalian History

ISBN10: 1433134284
ISBN13: 9781433134289
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Published: May 8 2019
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.54
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Hidden in Plain Sight: Covert Criticism of the Medici in Renaissance Florence offers the first systematic study of an important and heretofore insufficiently-studied phenomenon in Renaissance Europe. Through a close examination of a wide variety of visual and textual materials, James O. Ward illuminates the means by which Florentine citizens--among them several of the most famous artists and writers of the time, such as Michelangelo, Machiavelli, and Vasari--managed, in an increasingly authoritarian political and cultural climate, to express their disaffection with the prevailing political and cultural status quo in relatively safe ways, while at the same time maintaining contact with those rulers whom they criticized, upon whom they often depended for their livelihoods. Ward's volume thus offers new and provocative interpretations of some of the most famous works of Italian Renaissance visual and textual culture--for example, Michelangelo's New Sacristy in Florence, Machiavelli's Prince, and Vasari's portrait of Lorenzo de' Medici--which have traditionally been viewed by scholars of the period as encomiastic celebrations of their patrons' power and prestige. The volume thus provides--besides its intimate view of power relations between some of Florence's most creative artists and writers and those they served--fresh perspectives on the important question of patron-artist relations during the period.

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