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The Florentine Guilds
The Florentine guilds from the twelfth to the sixteenth century, with one notable exception to be referred to hereafter, represent the high-water mark in the history of these great mediaeval institutions. But the formation of guilds was not confined to the city-states of Tuscany, England, France, …
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St. Joseph Iconography In Fifteenth Century Florentine Painting
… of the donkey saddle and traveler's items to Florentine nativities in the 15th century is understated at best, if not ignored all together. These items appear during the rise of the Medici family, as an indication of the shift in culture towards the patriarchal society endorsed by this …
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Surveilling Sin: Locating Sodomy in the Early Modern Florentine Bathhouse
… these magistracies policed every parish, the Florentine bathhouse was more challenging: it permitted nakedness and, as such, often resulted in unsavory interactions between men. How might topographical and painterly representations of water, wantonness, and punishment allow the historian to …
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‘To Recover Art to the Florentine Original’: William Blake’s Reception of Michelangelo
This thesis is an examination of William Blake’s reception of Michelangelo, focusing primarily on visual works and art criticism. I argue, firstly, that by understanding Michelangelo’s reception in London across Blake’s lifetime we can better contextualise the rise in interest in Italian culture …
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Curiosity and the Ideal: Anatomical Investigation and the Gendered Imagination in Sixteenth-Century Florentine Art
… to mid sixteenth-century Florence. Prominent Florentine artists in the first half of the sixteenth century, such as Michelangelo, Rosso Fiorentino, Baccio Bandinelli, and Francesco Salviati, pursued the study of anatomy quite rigorously; they are even reported to have performed dissections …
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Amazzoni di Dio: Florentine musical spectacle under Maria Maddalena d'Austria and Cristina di Lorena (1620-1630)
Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by Howard Ding (hding2@illinois.edu) on 2011-05-07T14:46:17Z Item is restricted indefinitely.
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Displacement and Reconfiguration: The Effects of the Florentine Guasto of 1529 on Devotional Spaces and Networks of Artistic Patronage
… reflects on loss and displacement as central to Florentine sacred geography. More broadly, it reconsiders the Florentine case alongside other similar *guasti* as key disruptions in the urban and artistic development of Renaissance cities, challenging the dominant narrative of continuous urban …
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Visual theology in 14th and 15th century Florentine frescoes : a theological approach to historical images, sacred spaces, and the modern viewer
… of this approach through case studies drawn from Florentine fresco cycles of the 14th and 15th centuries, enriching the experience of the modern viewer. In particular it addresses the materiality of images and the relationship between the space within images, the spaces of their locations, and …
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Architecture, festival and order: the history and persistence in the Florentine Feast of San Giovanni and its significance to the city's civic identity
The Feast Day of San Giovanni is still a significant day for Florence. Since its revival in the 1930s - but also throughout much of the city’s history - every year church processions and civic parades have been augmented by a series of other events that together combine to represent the city to …
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Linguistic Prestige and Early Modern Italy: A Contribution to Historical Sociolinguistics
… the literary variety based on fourteenth-century Florentine that was being codified and promoted. The notion of prestige is investigated by focusing on the relationship between: prestige and standard; prestige and context; prestige and social networks. My thesis brings together investigation of …
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An Alternate Antiquity: The Etruscans in Renaissance Florence and Rome
… the city's origins to the Etruscan city Fiesole. Florentine authors, from the early chroniclers of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries to the Renaissance scholars Leonardo Bruni, Leon Battista Alberti, and Giorgio Vasari, celebrated Etruscan wealth, warfare, and art. Accounts of the Etruscans …
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Images for the bride: the Chastelaine de Vergi fresco cycle in the Palazzo Davanzati in Florence
… expected of a fourteenth-century aristocratic Florentine newlywed bride and wife. In this case, the fresco was commissioned by Tomasso Davizzi upon the event of marriage to the intended viewer, Catalena degli Alberti. By placing the fresco cycle within contemporary Italian Renaissance marital …
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Francesco Guicciardini and Philippe De Commynes: Tradition and Innovation in Early Modern Historiography
… their continuities with and departures from the Florentine and French traditions. Finally, the two historians will be compared in terms of their perceptions of causation and their schemes of explanation in their accounts of the first French invasion of Italy in 1494.</p>
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Neighbourhood and Identity in Renaissance Florence: Artistic Patronage at Santa Trinita and San Pancrazio
… furnishings – commissioned for the two Florentine, Vallombrosan churches of Santa Trinita and San Pancrazio, specifically in light of the geographical proximity of these two churches within the urban neighbourhood that extended loosely between Palazzo Strozzi, the Lungarno, Via de’ …
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Mi naqui: Birth and infancy in late medieval and Renaissance Florence
… ricordanze, the diary-like account books of the Florentine merchant and ruling elite, letters, humanists' and moralists' tracts on the family, and contemporary literature, this dissertation examines Florentine attitudes and behavior regarding birth and infancy from 1300-1600. Most Florentines of …
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Vasari, the Medici, and the Grotesques of the Palazzo Vecchio
… into the Palazzo Vecchio, the former seat of the Florentine republican government. As part of the ducal couple’s efforts to fashion their public identity, they embarked on an extensive new decorative program, which included entire walls, ceilings, and tapestries ornamented with grotesques. When …
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Artemisia Gentileschi: a reconstructed assessment of her contribution to Caravaggesque tradition in Tuscany
… from a stylistic analysis and comparison of her Florentine-produced work with selected paintings by three of her Tuscan contemporaries--Cristofano Allori, Francesco Rustici and Rutilio Manetti. The approach used centers on a reconstructive research methodology utilizing integrated scholarship …
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The Textual Transmission of Cicero's Epistulae ad Brutum, ad Quintum fratrem, and ad Atticum
… in fifteenth-century Italy, thanks to the Florentine Chancellor Coluccio Salutati (1331–1406) and two humanists of his circle: Niccolò Niccoli (1364–1437) and Leonardo Bruni (c. 1370–1444). Editors of Cicero’s letters believe that the top of the stemma is bipartite, and that bipartition …
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Vincenzo Danti and the Medici court : constructing professional identity in late Renaissance Florence
… with the ducal program of establishing Florentine cultural supremacy. Danti’s multi-disciplinary activities during his tenure at the Medici court demonstrate his hopes to secure long-term patronage and to become the primary sculptor to the Medici dukes. This project represents both a …
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