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1 online resource. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Visual and material culture, 1300-1700
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Visual and material culture, 1300-1700.
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Cover -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Activating the Renaissance Viewer: Art and Somaesthetic Experience -- Somaesthetics and Political Persuasion -- Patronage and the Construction of the Viewer in Medicean Florence -- 2. Mobilizing Visitors: Political Persuasion and the Somaesthetics of Belonging in the Chapel of the Magi -- Sensory Activation and the Signaling of the Patron -- Somaesthetic Emplacement in Immersive Artistic Programs -- Staging Belonging in Bethlehem |
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3. Staging Gendered Authority: Donatello's Judith, Lucrezia Tornabuoni de'Medici's sacra storia, and the Somaesthetics of Justice -- Medici Garden as Theater in the Round -- Somaesthetic Cultivation of Audience and Narrator -- Collective Witnessing at the Scaffolds -- 4. Performing Virtual Pilgrimage: Somaesthetics and Holy Land Devotion at San Vivaldo -- Materializing the Holy Land Experience -- Somaesthetic Fashioning and Affective Devotion -- Possessing the New Jerusalem |
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5. Playing the Printed Piazza: Giovanni de' Bardi's Discorso sopra il giuoco del calcio fiorentino and Somaesthetic Discipline in Grand-Ducal Florence -- The Florentine Piazza as Practiced Space of Calcio -- Antiquity and Historical Realism in Bardi's Discorso -- Battle Tactics, Vedute, and Somaesthetic Dominion -- Ritual Display and Restraint in the Noble Game of Calcio -- 6. Epilogue: Renaissance Somaesthetics in a Digital World -- About the Author -- Index -- List of Illustrations -- Plates |
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Plate 1. Fra Angelico, San Marco Altarpiece, 1438-1442, tempera on wood, originally for high altar of Church of San Marco, today in Museo di San Marco, Florence (Photo: Art Resource) -- Plate 2. View of the Chapel of the Magi, constructed by Michelozzo and painted by Benozzo Gozzoli by 1459, Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Florence (Photo: Alamy) -- Plate 3. Filippo Lippi, Adoration of the Child, c.1457, tempera with oil glazes and gold on poplar, originally located on the altar of the Chapel of Magi, Palazzo Medici, Florence -- today housed in Berlin, Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen (Photo: Art Reso |
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Plate 4. View of the eastern wall of Benozzo Gozzoli's painted cycle of the Procession of the Magi, 1459, mixed media, Chapel of the Magi, Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Florence (Photo: Art Resource) -- Plate 5. Detail of gold revetments on the leather straps of Cosimo de'Medici's mule, east wall, Chapel of the Magi (Photo: Author) -- Plate 6. Benozzo Gozzoli, Adoration of the Magi, fresco, c.1444, fresco, Cell 39, north corridor of dormitory, Convent of San Marco, Florence (Photo: Author) |
| Summary |
Viewers in the Middle Ages and Renaissance were encouraged to forge connections between their physical and affective states when they experienced works of art. They believed that their bodies served a critical function in coming to know and make sense of the world around them, and intimately engaged themselves with works of art and architecture on a daily basis. This book examines how viewers in Medicean Florence were self-consciously cultivated to enhance their sensory appreciation of works of art and creatively self-fashion through somaesthetic experience. Mobilized as a technology for the production of knowledge with and through their bodies, viewers contributed to the essential meaning of Renaissance art and, in the process, bound them to others. By investigating the framework and practice of somaesthetic viewing of works by Benozzo Gozzoli, Donatello, Benedetto Buglioni, Giorgio Vasari, and others in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Florence, the book approaches the viewer as a powerful tool that was used by patrons to shape identity and power in the Renaissance. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Art -- Italy -- Florence -- History -- 15th century.
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Art. |
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Italy -- Florence. |
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History. |
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15th century |
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Art -- Italy -- Florence -- History -- 16th century.
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16th century |
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Florence (Italy) -- Politics and government -- 15th century.
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Florence (Italy) -- Politics and government -- 16th century.
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Renaissance -- Italy -- Florence.
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Renaissance. |
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ART -- History -- Renaissance. |
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Politics and government. |
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1400-1599 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| ISBN |
9789048544240 (electronic book) |
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9048544246 (electronic book) |
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